Be Yourself, was produced for the installation at The Cadogan Hotel. The work draws inspiration from Oscar Wilde’s books, carrying on the literature theme that saturates most of Cadogan’s works. Yet, it also reference Marc Chagall’s output in their dreamlike aesthetic. In ‘Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Taken’ Cadogan leaves the viewer wondering about a conversation existing outside of the picture frame, depicting a still from a wider narrative that we cannot directly access. All we can observe is a bouquet of colourful flowers, an elegant woman, adorned with pearls and in the process of drinking a Martini, sitting in a closed place, with her shadow cast on the wall behind her. This tension suddenly reminds us that the figure might actually be alone, left to her own company, in solitude but without loneliness.