‘The piece TIX3 is a reference to being trapped in a cinema. Leigh Bowery loved any old trash. He would just leave everything, go to McDonald's, then go to Häagen-Dazs, then go to a blockbuster movie in Leicester Square, then go to Burger King, then go to Häagen-Dazs, and then go and see another film before catching the night bus home. One afternoon Leigh said “I'll pay for you, I'll pay for you!” and I was taken to see something like Top Gun. After ten minutes of thinking I would be able to cope, I was fuming, mad, absolutely furious and stomped out of the cinema in a huff. I went through the wrong emergency exit on to Leicester Square, only to realize that the security doors were locked. I was trapped in a small space between the cinema and the doors that went on to the street. The only thing I could see was the little exit sign etched into Perspex in fluorescent green paint. All I could see was “TIX3” – “exit” written backwards - to the soundtrack of Top Gun. The work is about being in a space you are not “meant” to be in. It came to represent that space of looking over your shoulder, like Lot's wife being turned into a pillar of salt for looking back at Soddom and Gomorrah. The idea that you don't normally see this because you are not looking for it.’

– Cerith Wyn Evans