Everything is going to be alright - Martin Creed

Driving home a couple of weeks ago and saw Martin Creed's installation on the front of Tate Britain. It cheered me up (difficult week) and it was so unexpected. I'm guessing there's a level of irony in it but I found it strangely calming and comforting in the circumstances. The combination of simplicity and message is at the heart of Creed's neon works - they call a spade a spade. I like the straightfowardness of these works. Art has many functions - amongst others - to challenge, to reassure or disconcert but above all, to communicate. 

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[Karahana]

I've seen this one during my last day in London, coming from Dubai where I had lost my job amid the credit crunch, and then leaving London and my girlfriend over there not to see her again. Heading back home feeling something like closure, not be best closure, but closure indeed. It made me feel better, I can't say everything worked out good, but for the moment, I felt somewhat a slight comfort =P