#179: Nude

A full-length mirror in a gallery.

#178: Work Together (A Socialist Tapestry)

Flags hang from the gallery ceiling representing all activisms that fall, or should fall, on the political left.  All strands and points of view are represented.  The bottom end of each flag is frayed so that they carry on and dangle down.  These frayed ends are then knotted to the frayed ends of every other flag, connecting all to each other.

sailing under all flags

we should all be socialists

and raise each other up

we should all be everythingists

advocates for each other

for we face obstacles in common 

and can only beat them together

competition narrows and demeans

us, makes us more like them

undermining and exploding

holding on and pulling down

to live as fearlessly as a child

we must first dismantle 

the entire prison together 

sailing under all flags

we should all be everything

for to raise each other up

#177: The End of the Golden Period (and The Start of the Dialogue with The Past)

Oil on canvas.  

Word painting reading, 

< googles, “The Idea” >

Damn it, I thought I was being original.

#176: A place to stop and discuss the other works (but not this one)

Somewhere within your exhibition, preferably breaking up an otherwise solid wall of paintings, please leave a blank space from the floor to the ceiling of 2 metres titled in the catalogue as:

A place to stop and discuss the other works (but not this one).

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Unentered idea for the 2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the theme of which was “Only Connect,” taken from the famous quote in Howards End by E.M. Forster.

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