I’m a sucker for a series, I’m a strong believer that if you have a series of things they are stronger than the sum of their parts. But with the hand dryers, initially it was kind of a product design interest.. There are so many varieties and so many that are useless; they didn’t work, or whatever and I started to wonder who put them there, or who cared enough to point out they were broken but not enough to fix them. And then I thought there was something in it, so I put them on Instagram and everyone thought I was crazy. But slowly, surely, they found their narrative and I began to explore what bathrooms are and what they mean to humanity and the way we treat them. I think that bathrooms are unique, in that, when you’re in a bathroom and you lock it, you have an anonymity that you can’t have anywhere else. So what you choose to do, or how you choose to behave within that anonymity I think is a representation of the truest version of yourself.

With phone booths, I have always been interested in phone booths. When I was a kid, and we didn’t have mobile phones, you were chained to phone boxes but emotionally the importance is still there; they are still life saving. I think the phone boxes, like the bathrooms, represent our ability to forget the things that aren’t important and as soon as this happens, we ignore them, we mistreat them, they become invisible. But yet there is still this lifetime of servitude, waiting to be used, and in the meantime they are just beaten up and written on. They are kind of sad and strong at the same time, a poetic symbol of the resilience of humans.