Tali Lennox

INTERVIEW AND PORTRAIT BY ALEPH MOLINARI TALI LENNOX’S GOTHIC-EROTIC AESTHETIC CAPTURES THE MYSTERIOUS UNDERBELLY OF GOTHAM CITY. ALEPH MOLINARI — You’re from London, and you’ve been here for 10 years now. What first drew you to New York? TALI LENNOX — I feel like everyone has different geo­ graphical vortexes that pull them in at different times in their lives. I find it in islands specifically, but especially in New York — it is an island, and it has a magnetic energy in the stone that it’s built on. When I came here as a teen­ ager, I knew nobody. And I wasn’t going out — I was too young to go to bars, but I had the most wonderful time. Absorbing the elec­tricity of the city. I’m also quite compulsive and intui­tive, and the mixture of the two leads me to make dras­tic decisions. So, I decided to move…