Drawing room confessions. Sarah Lucas. Vol. 8

Yes, because a lot of my things depend on-to be more or less effective-the angle of the diagonal. Especially these things made of tights, because they can sag a bit or put a leg just a bit wrong. It's not like there's a precise way they have to go at all. But my touch... It's because I'm confident with it as well. I know it doesn't have to be one particular way, but I also know what looks right when I see it. I suppose I'm bringing all of that to it. And quite often if I go and see something that's been hung by somebody else, and especially when things have travelled in crates half-way around the world, and they get there, they're opened up, and often if it's in somebody else's hands to tweak them, and whoever it is hasn't got my facility with that. And you can't explain that to somebody. It's interesting how much meaning can be in the angle of the diagonal. (...)