#219: Small black flowers that grow in the sky

Oil on canvas.  

A view of a bright blue sky, dotted with a few clouds, the sun shining in the corner.  Vines with flowers grow across the scene along the bars at the top of a cage.

#218: Self-portrait XVIII / Joint Self-portrait V

A film of you in a karaoke booth singing the songs that you feel most represent you and your life.  Or with your friends and/or family singing the songs that unite you and represent you as a group.

#217: I looked inside myself once and there was nothing there

A tumbleweed tumbling through a deserted desert town but in your mind.

#216: Lament for the weak for they will be crushed vs The weak die young and right now we crouch to make them strong

Oil on canvas.  

The painting split into three parts: two are alongside one another and feature separate images while a third contains words and runs along the bottom of the canvas below the two previous sections.  

The image on the left is of someone lamenting.  

The image on the right shows someone heroic lifting a platform on which many people are sat on the edge or standing behind.  

The text along the bottom reads, “Which would you rather?”

#215: Bliss

Oil on canvas.  A family sitting and watching television together.

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Clarke, Patrick (2021) A Quietus Interview: The Atoms That Made Us: Manic Street Preachers Interviewed. Available at: https://thequietus.com/articles/30411-manic-street-preachers-nicky-wire-interview-the-ultra-vivid-lament (Accessed: 15th November 2023).

#214: Love (Tom Allen)

Oil on canvas.

Black words on a white background, reading: Security.

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See: Greenstreet, Rosanna (2023) The Q&A: Tom Allen: ‘At an early corporate gig, they opened the buffet in the middle of my set – everybody left’. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/nov/25/tom-allen-interview (Accessed: 25th November 2023).

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#213: Love (Paul Auster)

A well-cared for tree or plant.

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See: Wroe, Nicholas (2023) Interview: ‘This might be the last thing I ever write’: Paul Auster on cancer, connection and the fallacy of closure. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/18/paul-auster-on-cancer-connection-and-the-fallacy-of-closure (Accessed: 18th November 2023).

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