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In terms of photomontage, did you have inspirations?

There was this big Heartfield exhibition that Savage went to. But I’d arrived at photomontage almost in isolation. When I made the first pieces, it really was in absolute innocence. I had no real historical awareness of this really potent method of making images.

So making The Secret Public, did you have one pile of naked females from porn mags and another pile of domestic appliances and so forth from women’s magazines?

Not even porn really. There was one pile of men’s magazine imagery and another pile from women’s magazines, going from fashion mags like Vogue to really mundane magazines like Family Circle and Woman’s Own, as well as catalogues of furniture. A fairly heavy arsenal, and the only common denominator was ‘women’. It wasn’t that difficult to start making those montages. They were almost like you were doing a jigsaw but you’d lost the box top – but if you work long enough you will find out where the sky is and where the tree goes. Because I’d spend the evening cutting and cutting I’d end up with a table full of eyes and mouths and kettles and irons and limbs. In those tungsten days, days without light, sooner or later you’d just find the right pieces, and they’d make the right pictures.

I never thought about the name New Hormones until I read about one of your songs being about ‘hormonal victory’, and I suddenly thought, ‘What an interesting name for a record label!’ Did you have anything to do with it?

No, it was an idea that Richard Boon and Howard had had for a few years, before I met the two of them. But they never had anything to apply it to.

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