Most artists do get a little uncomfortable when they have to explain their own work. “It just came about that way,” or “It came from a certain feeling.” Janine Abbring has found something on that. Ask them about their favorite work, and they’ll burn loose. In This is good she speaks with a tattoo artist, a musician, a crime writer about the masterpieces from their profession. With admiration, Tinkebell speaks of a performance artwork that made her stand in line for three hours under a blazing Venetian sun – something she would do again in a minute. Perfumer Spyros Drosopoulos explains to her what makes Jacomo de Jacomo so special: it’s in the layering of the recipe, the low notes that appear after the top notes have faded.
A version of this article also appeared in the newspaper of June 25, 2022