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At the beginning of the century, Firrell experimented with fly-posting poetic descriptions of love and loss in London's Soho. These are the first artworks created by the artist in the poster format, the first to occupy space more usually associated with commercial messaging, and the first works intended as public art.
The texts are influenced by the work of French novelist Marguerite Duras.
NOTE
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (1914 – 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. She was the author of many novels, plays, films, interviews, essays, and works of short fiction, including her best-selling, highly fictionalized autobiographical work
L'Amant
(1984), translated into English as
The Lover,
which describes her youthful affair with a Chinese-Vietnamese man. The novel was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1984.
Duras creates hallucinogenic intensity with minimal, and often repetitive, prose.
The incidents described are autobiographical. The artist was interested in intensity and scale of feeling. For a period of time, and in the interests of the idea of scale, the artist attempted to live and relate to others in his daily life with the intensity of a work of fiction by Duras.
