How to make this photo mine? A room, people who come and go, a hotel that stays. Someone goes out of the frame, a vague form moves in front of the wallpaper of a hotel room. My photos set photographic sharpness against the artistic softness of paintings that I don't paint. Images come to me: need a model for a scene: a man? But who? An unknown found on the internet? Watching "Broken Flowers" at the cinema, I had a flash: Tilda Swinton made me think of a friend – brown hair, pale, eyes with too much make-up, dramatic. And C. said yes.