Eleni - A4 Oil Paint on Cartridge Paper

Eleni - A4 Oil Paint on Cartridge Paper - sealed with high gloss acrylic varnish - includes removable plastic mounting frame

I lived with Eleni at No. 9 Overbury Road. This place was a wild ride, I'm not gonna lie....I arrived there homeless after being threatened in another warehouse and receiving anti-trans threats. I had my deposit stolen and I had nowhere to go. Tim and Jason made me house manager of this 12 bedroom warehouse on the condition that I clean, decorate and fill it with new people within a month. Oh, and I also had to live there whilst the current people all slowly moved out. The first night I got there I slept on a dirty mattress on the floor of a spare room , surrounded by condom packets, half full beer cans and overflowing ashtrays, as a full party raged through the warehouse. Exhausted from all that I'd just been through I just laid there and tried to block it all out.

Anyway, it's a long story this one, but that's as much as I'll go into right now. Eleni was one of the new people who I chose to move in. A small, cute, emotional and very talented Italian fashion designer at the very beginning of her career. And even though this story ends with another complete shitshow, Eleni remains a positive character in the scene, albeit shrouded in the abstract whirlwind of dramas, mental health breakdowns, drug addictions, in house politics and relationships, and hidden narratives that swamped this warehouse.

Interestingly - something good to come from all of this was that I discovered I had ADHD and CPTSD..but that's a story we don't have time for here..