The limited edition print Damned Youth (2011) was produced by Wilhelm Sasnal exclusively for the Whitechapel Gallery and the title plays
on the fleetingness of youth, alluding to the artist's experience of looking back at twenty years of working as a painter.
Recalling the look of chalk
on blackboards, the effect reinforces the mysterious quality of Simmons» imagery while suggesting movement, the
fleetingness of time, the pliability of history, and the inevitable fading of both cultural and personal memory.