Slocombe, an Anglo-French artist, is author~ paintert illustrator, photograE>her, film-makerB emerged from the Paris Underground scene of the late seventies and achieving growing cult-status in Japant in the nineties. Japan... Bondage... Yes. But bondage with a surgical twist. Why? "You can't say >~hy something is personally arousing. I' Try. 'lCertain images attract bocause the desire~:s alreadry present. .V7hen I ~^zas at schoal, there was a bealltiful girl who went out with a shitty Nazi boy. When she broke her arm, I got these terrible hard-ons peering at her in her plaster-cast - the purity of tho whitenesst the constrictions the stiffness that starts to Isok a bit doll-likee "

Paris, juin 1997