Langley Fox

portrait by Sandy Kim

drawings

interview by AARON ROSE
portrait by SANDY KIM

 

When I was in high school, I had a horrible addiction to Goth chicks. If a girl didn’t have jet-black hair, alabaster skin, and a suitably morose attitude to match, she just didn’t register as female to me. It wasn’t until I got into therapy and my shrink absolutely commanded that I stop dating young ladies of this description that things began to change. I simply had to go cold turkey. There was a deep-seated psychological reasoning behind this demand, but I’ll save that for another time. The reason I’m bringing that up here is that the first time I saw Langley Fox’s drawings, I was immediately brought back to those high school days. Her works typify that innocent and awkward angst of youth that I found so attractive as a teen….