ON HUMOUR

There's an expectation that art should be serious — measured, composed, perhaps a little distant.

But some of the most revealing moments come through humour.

A joke works because it breaks expectation. It creates a gap between what we think will happen and what actually happens. That gap is where something new emerges.

Likewise in art, a small visual twist, a detail slightly out of place, can open the mind to something we hadn't considered before.