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The displays Half-a-commode.... salvaged from construction-site debris, in an enclosure; Corrugated tin... inverted containers, shop-floor seats, hollow from the inside; Squashed up... aluminium coke-cans and bottle-lids, stashed by the dozens; Rusting old pair... of dented batteries - A-class, from discarded torch lights; Mounted rectangle... sketch-canvas half-a-diagonal triangle coloured black; Foreground Expanse of water... mirage lit by a deceptive lamp playing evening sun.
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Dec 30, 2012
Dec 30, 2012 at 1:11 PM UTC
Modern Art | The Earth Chronicles
The displays Half-a-commode.... salvaged from construction-site debris, in an enclosure; Corrugated tin... inverted containers, shop-floor seats, hollow from the inside; Squashed up... aluminium coke-cans and bottle-lids, stashed by the dozens; Rusting old pair... of dented batteries - A-class, from discarded torch lights; Mounted rectangle... sketch-canvas half-a-diagonal triangle coloured black; Foreground Expanse of water... mirage lit by a deceptive lamp playing evening sun.
Picture poem: Inspired by a visit years ago, to London's beautiful 'Tate Modern' art gallery featuring urban kitsch art: I was reflecting on the year past and my thoughts veered to the increasingly difficult future we confront and how this is reflected in incidents of increasing madness across the world, with our backs braced at an environmental cliff. I've sought to capture the melancholy moods of objects displayed, raising a contemplative sweep of our post-industrial world and the futures we confront, captured by the images of the seemingly crazy display of a half-painted rectangle passing off as art*  and  the eerie image of an artificial sun! *'Higher Powers Command: Paint the Upper Right Corner Black!' by Sigmar Polke
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Dec 30, 2012
Dec 30, 2012 at 1:11 PM UTC
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