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I think the main thing that attracts me to artists/identity are those who work around being different against the current, an outsider - whether it be their own personal reason or as a part of a minority group, so I think this is why I had a direct interest in Rotimi Fani-Kayode as he was a gay black man in the 80s and this very clearly influenced his work. He said "On three counts I am an outsider: in matters of sexuality; in terms of geographical and cultural dislocation; and in the sense of not having become the sort of respectably married professional my parents might have hoped for."  Kayode being this way said his position gave him a "feeling of having little to lose" as having to "hang on to his own creativity through the cries of adolescence and in spite of pressure to conform, it has a liberating effect". I, personally, find this to be true. The struggle of not knowing who you are or ,even knowing who you are, and having other opinions and ingr...