KW: No.
HAH: Right then, Kerry, tell me a little about your helmet. What’s it like? Do you feel like a woman in a stylised sea who’d rather drown than call Brad for help?
KW: Sorry? Not really, um, I just needed a new helmet.
HAH: But you like it right? Like you’re poking fun at the establishment and celebrating triviality?
KW: Well, kind of, more comfortable in a “it fits your head really well kind of way”. It’s a pretty simple adjustment mechanism but I like the shape and it seems to work with my head.
HAH: So, did you buy it because it was a sleek but clever nod to the sassy, self-referential, playful style of great 20th century artists like Warhol? Were you hoping to reinvigorate the pop culture vs high culture debate, bringing mass consumption to a mass audience in a whole new way?
KW: No.
HAH: Fine.
KW: Sorry.
HAH: No, that’s fine.
KW: Look, I really am sorry, I just kind of liked the helmet. It’s hard to find nice, matte black helmet these days.
HAH: You didn’t think the carbon fibre-esque patterning was a nifty touch, a bit Benday in its own right? A kind of clever reference to the materials of our time?
KW: Not really.
HAH: You didn’t think the low profile silhouette, 26 wind tunnel vents and benchmark in-mold Roll Cage weren’t a little like the ironic collages of Rauschenberg and Hamilton?
KW: Look, I wasn’t channeling Warhol’s Elvis, or rendering everyday objects through the techniques of commercial printing, or recapturing kitsch for the critic. It’s a nice helmet, it’s light, suits your head if you have lots of hair, and the little bit of colour at the back is a nice touch too. What’s an in-mold Roll Cage, anyway?
HAH: I don’t know. It was on the ad. I thought you might know what it is.
KW: Presumably it’s a safety thing.
HAH: These things are safe?
KW: Totally, I’ve come off a couple of times, I always wear a helmet. What do I look like, a moron?
HAH: Not at all, I think you’re gorgeous, I just never realised helmets had any other purpose than looking amazing and making fantastically oblique mentions of once edgy art movements.
KW: Sure, but I think mainly it’s a safety thing.
