The notion of 'somewhere bizarre' first came to me as marixxx and I sat in the back of a compact jeep being driven by a cousin I had not seen in many years through the streets of Sydney with his MTV presenter girlfriend sitting next to him and he spoke without stopping about life, people, places in the city, in australia and everything was 'bizarre'. While not a word I particularly use, that night it seemed to capture perfectly a feeling often found in the global ghetto. It has since stuck somehow. My cousin had booked us in to L'otel, a funky and glamorous little hotel. We were on a speeded up emigration process that lasted 40 days, like Jesus' time in the desert, before we headed back to Europe. But that's another story...

Along similar conceptual lines, Mondo Bizzarro has recently opened an exhibition featuring the work of Walter Bortolossi. Mixing pop culture icons, film stars and company logos with elements from past culture and mythologies, the paintings provide material for political and philosophical musings, through a breezy and brazen use of colour and a fluid juxtaposition of imagery.