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I Would Have Given Anything for Your Call
was devised for the Samsung neon that used to form part of the world famous lights in Piccadilly Circus, London UK.
The use of text echoes the series
Untitled (Fly-posting)
2001.1.1-3.
Once again, the writing evokes fragments of a relationship with an intensity that would be familiar to readers of the 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.
Like much of Duras, the artist's text is autobiographical, referring to the earliest stages of a love affair. The artwork evokes the heightened receptiveness of lovers to small joys or hurts that have seismic ramifications.
Firrell had planned to visit Duras in the mid 1990s but hesitated on learning that she spoke only French.
