paintings in a reallyjoyful way. you're like, "these are great paintings!" yeah, because as an artist, i believe my eye. then, i found myself in the world of orientalist or the patterns or the tiles or the carpets as a piece of an artwork, as already so important as it is. genuinely, you're sort of like, there's a respect for that tradition which you feel deeply. i do. i respect arts — that's why, maybe, yeah. i love the playfulness of ardan�*s work. there's a real coming together of worlds here, of different layers — her fascination with the repetition and abstraction of islamic art, the way she embraces and evolves that vexed orientalist world view by looking at it through the warholian lens of a pop art sensibility. all that, for me, really encapsulates what i've been discovering —