During this project I’ve been thinking a lot about coffee and it’s place in my life and wider society. While doing this research, I remembered a short film I watched during the first lockdown last year called ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ directed by Jim Jarmusch. It shows a series of short vignettes of famous personalities engaging in conversation whilst enjoying a coffee and a cigarette. While some people might find this kind of film boring, I thought it was fascinating to watch people interacting with each other and seeing that, famous or not, coffee is something that can be appreciated by everyone, regardless of class, background, race or gender. I’m fascinated by the conversations had over a cup of coffee as I think its an opportunity for any topic to be discussed so I’d like to create an artists book of illustrations depicting different conversations I overhear or have heard in the past between people having a coffee sharing a cigarette.

All images – screen caps from ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’.

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