Tracey Emin glundert van oor tot oor als ze met de Olypische vlam door haar geboorteplaats Margate loopt. Emin woont in Londen en heeft een soort haat liefde verhouding met de haar geboorteplaats.Eerder danste ze voor alle jongens uit Margate, die haar niet serieus hadden genomen of bespot. This one is for you! Nu is haar overzichtstentoonstelling, She Lay Down Beneath The Sea, net reopened.
Wat een triomf! 

"I come from Margate and to see everyone so enthusiastic who has come down to the town is amazing."

Emin said she did not have to think twice when she was asked to carry the Olympic flame in her home town and she even cancelled her holiday so she was able to take part.

She said: "It's like the most surreal dream you can ever imagine.

"Who would have thought I would be carrying the Olympic torch through Margate to my own art gallery which wasn't even here a year-and-a-half ago."

(the independat)