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<v ->Well, Sabine's,</v>

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she's the sister-in-law of one of my oldest friends

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so I've known her for a while.

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And originally I was gonna do it as like a comic thing,

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not with her,

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with another postie I knew

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who lended more to the comic side.

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But then when the pandemic struck

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I thought, no, there's a much deeper meaning to that.

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I think it says on the thing that when we were taking that,

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I did it based on a series of photos

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'cause we couldn't take the postie bike

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and they all just kept looking like, you know,

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publicity shots for the post office.

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And so I said we'll draw it front on

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and then I said,

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look at me like you haven't got time for this shit.

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And she said, "I've got two teenage kids, so I can do that."

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And so we, yeah, with her looking more severe

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it worked better.

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And all the way through painting it,

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I just said, look are you sure, you know?

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And she goes, "No, I'd rather have my face like that

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"cause that represented the reality of."

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She said it was like working Christmas rush

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constantly for three months.

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And there was, I can't remember the name of the art critic,

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but there was a guy in England who said that

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"Lockdown actually meant that

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"the middle class stayed home

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"and the working class brought them stuff."

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And that's sort of,

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I read that after I'd started the painting

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but it sort of fit in what I was trying to do.

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And that's, you know, the streets are empty,

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everybody's inside.

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We tried with her wearing the mask,

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but I thought, no I want people to see her face.

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So we just hung on the side of the bike.

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So yeah.

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(gentle music)