2025.3.18
Prieks Ka Atnāci (Novice Face), 2025
2025
No documentary photograph
Digital billboards
18 of 24 from
Pride in Europe

992 x 560px Jpeg, RGB Colour, 150dpi
Riga Latvia, 2025
This version of the artwork
Glad You Came (Novice)
was created for a newly commissioned digital billboard in Riga, Latvia.

Unfortunately, the digital site was not commissioned in time for Riga Pride and the artwork was never displayed.

To accommodate the landscape portrait, Firrell focuses solely on the face of each figure. Whilst this was an expedient approach, it also gives rise to further nuances of meaning.

Here the inexperience of the subject is emphasised by the apparent proximity of the camera and the cautious, laborious application of lipstick. The double entendre in the text 'glad you came' is also underlined suggested first or early orgasm.