"The hostile world we find ourselves in only makes me more determined to create work where I feel I can make some kind of connection. I thankfully have the capacity to turn around a bad situation into something – it gives me the impetus to keep going. When I was a child, I was told nearly every day by my primary school teacher that I was useless and would amount to nothing as all I ever did was daydream. It affected me so badly that I couldn't mention the word ‘stupid’ without crying uncontrollably. Three years ago, my sister discovered I had a severe form of dyslexia, something not even known about when I was a kid, and something I'd never considered even in adulthood as I'd just been combating 'this thing' for all these years in secret. I'd constantly work out ways to keep myself ahead in class, and later developed codes and diagrams that, when drawn out repeatedly, would eventually unlock the simplicity of each situation. She'd found them one day when I was too unwell to remember to hide them, I heard her physically howling, so much so that I thought her sick cat must have died, but she was screaming "I've discovered everything". For her the realisation was a relief, now she knew why over the years she'd felt I was disconnected, despite us having a tremendous love and admiration for each other." daun'intervista per Zero Nine Magazine

(Pam Hogg, stilista e costumista; Paisley, 4 gennaio 1959 – Londra, 26 novembre 2025)