"I enjoy most things pretty and witty, and I hope my collage art is a bit of both."
Ilinca Barsan has obviously had enough of boring chat-up lines. She prefers to flirt intelligently - with the greatest thinkers in history. The artist and author, who was born in Bucharest, grew up in Germany and now lives in Edinburgh, lovingly combines her weakness for philosophy and playful wordplay to create the Pick-Up Theorist collages. Let's be honest: wouldn't we all like to fight the absurd with Albert Camus?