Looking Twice

Tash Kahn and Cathy Rose

Artist Tash Kahn met writer Cathy Rose on a residency in Spain in 2022. Their collaboration began during a conversation in the kitchen when Tash showed Cathy some Polaroids she had taken around the property. The images were strange and slightly incongruous: an out-of-place bottle of water on a window sill, a rusted kids’ table and chair under a tree, and a goat tethered to a chain. Tash thought Cathy could work them into some exciting stories. She did, and when the residency ended and the pair went back to their respective homes in London and San Fransisco, the collaboration continued – eventually becoming ‘The Polaroid Stories’.