itsanosofadog

Extracts taken from a conversation between Richard Francis and artist Amanda Moström.

RF: So what about the keyholes? Yeah, where did they come from?

AM: I’ve shown you those books, haven’t I? The old Japanese magazines, well, I suppose it is pornography.

AM: It comes back to the place of the erotic simply being a way of figuring out where your urgencies are at, and where you feel motivated to the degree of wanting to do something wholly and with passion and lust, and it being like, such a source and such an energy, I think that’s my forever hunt to try to get my head around.

I think that that’s what I have witnessed with my nan. Seeing someone create and make for their own sake, the way that nan was making work, and her engagement with it, it’s very similar to masturbation, it’s for no one else’s sake and no one’s ever gonna see and no one’s ever gonna capitalise on and no one’s ever gonna ask for, no one’s ever gonna know of.

Like, it’s, it’s a completely sort of sacred moment just for her. And I think for me, that is always something that I’m so, so hungry to be sniffing at and keep active with.

My obsession with it is because I’m quite a melancholic person, I have reoccurring depression and often struggle with my own urgencies day to day. So anything that could be a mine of a sort, to excavate the gold of individuals urgencies and kinks if you like. Everyday kinks, yours, my mums, the neighbours, its intriguing to me and I’m in awe to see and witness these.