The Suitcase symbolise for me the idea of travelling of course, but more than that they represent something of our desires, our need to escape, to be free of the shackles of the work we must do in order to survive. But more than this they represent a certain kind of love - a love for the world as well as the need to express our feelings about the world and our lives - to take pleasure in what is around us. We cant necessarily do that all the time, at home in our everyday surroundings because we, naturally, take these for granted a lot of the time. It’s hard to look around you with the eyes of a child and wonder at the lamp post on the corner of your road - but to me that is what in a way art does, by giving us new ways of viewing the world. It’s not that art should be sentimental or nostalgic of course - but not all art should be seriously political either. Art should be about reflection as much as it is about imagining new ideals. Art is a two-sided coin.
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