💭 Where's the place that you think about more than anywhere else? In this painting two empty seats stand at its centre, with locks of cut hair on the floor. Spray bottles, razors, hair dryers and electric shaving machines have been distilled into vibrant blocks of colour, still recognisable on the counter. Painted by Hurvin Anderson in 2008, it depicts the interior of a barbershop in Kingsland, Jamaica. His paintings evoke a sense of, as he puts it, ‘being in one place but thinking about another’. Anderson’s art with its deliberate surface thinness, most closely shadows the 1970s works of Michael Andrews, another British painter who used his medium’s slippages to signify what he felt about a subject, and who tended to let his iconography melt outward from a tight photorealist core, as if drifting inescapably into the fault zone of memory.