‘And’ is the title of a 1997-99 series of large canvasses and related works on paper that depict Kamen’s own left hand, drawn in permanent markerand highly coloured acrylic, set against a highly worked yet abstract backdrop of football crowds taken from the day’s newspaper. The wordplay (hand/and) in the title is an example of Kamen’s masterful and searching use of

language in his works and of his fascination with short words that function as connections between other words. Connection is an important theme in these works, as the hand, often in an open position, seems to be eternally reaching out or seeking connection with the abstract human mass behind it, a gesture that serves to demonstrate the imagined, but not easily breached, distance between the individual and the crowd.

Works from this series were also often undertaken directly onto pages of printed texts, often from foundational religious texts that underpin Western culture, such as the Bible.