It was during the later part of 1998 that the ill fated Colin Thom began dating a stripper at his fifth local that year. (For you Yanks, this means that Thom was so drunk he was kicked out of the previous four bars that he attended regularly.). Mona owned the bar and allowed Thom to pay off his bar tab with leatherwork. This rectangular piece was part of a larger (but only slightly larger) triangle forming the front of a leather thong. Customers found Thom's thongs too disturbing, and stopped coming up and putting cold one pound coins in Mona's panties. Soon Colin Thom was hanging out in the coctail lounge of a curry shop on the Fulham Road.
Colin Thom
Birdman Yellow, 1998
Material: Leather, hammered and dyed.