Tracy Emin's visit to Rome

Dear S,..

Well as you can guess Tracy 'Enemas' opening, (secondpun not intended) was all smoke and no roast as the saying goes. Lo and behold, the grande dame herself appeared at Lorcan's gallery at the appropriate hour, beswadelled in a curious kind of gold lame outfit, and I swear looking like a big christmas cracker fromHarrod's, but alas lacking the bang...

The opening was packed but yawn, yawn, yaketty yak,really dreary, reflecting, I am sad to say, the tone of the work. ..

Her Ladyship had decided to paint multitudes of vaginas. ..

These she rendered, and depicted in a delicate Abstract Expressionist mode.. Hard to imagine being a delicate Abstract Expressionist, I know, but our good lady almost achieved it. As Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote in one of his songs from Evita 'Her own leading parts are between her legs'.......... ..

I couldn't decide what was more unpleasant to look at her face or her you know what. What can you say? I have seen it all before and no doubt will see it all again...

Rome is wonderful, hot, sunny and decadent of course. This is great if you are serious about working, but a disaster if for one moment you slack off, and start hanging out. The city is still full of deadbeats from the 1950s and 1960s, that spent too much time in the piazza and not enough in the studio...

Anyway life is good, I am working like a dog in my studio, and DADa is involved in an ever growing number of projects.Hope you become a fixture in Rome, keep up the emails. Baci da LaLa, DADa and tribu
(Text written by P.)