Yellow bird 1984

This is about the little island off Fiji that we’ve been going to for a long time called Toberua. We went there since the early 70s and this is a picture really which is a kind of accumulation of ideas. It’s about Judy, being in that environment, and about the kind of decorative things that you find in Fiji: the shells, the tapa cloth around the outside of the frame, the parrots and the parrot fish, the sunflowers, sitting there for afternoon tea. I’ve travelled a lot in the South Pacific and I hope I continue to do, and this is not any specific place, just an accumulation of ideas and purposely highly decorative picture about the experience of being in the tropics.