People do ask “why is the fire extinguisher there?”
You see the full title of this series is ‘The flames of hair … could have set my studio on fire. So I had a fire extinguisher at the ready.’
Lots of common things in life disturb our sense of beauty and glamor. But an artist’s role can be to make the ordinary extraordinary.
So here instead of photoshopping out the fire extinguisher I chose a model and made the fire central to the theme.
