The Themersons Summon a Boojum and Incite an Apocalypse Which Demands an Active and Useful Avant-Garde in Every Discipline

Full photograph and details of a piece began in 2018, during lectures on the Themersons  and their contribution to 20th avant-garde thought and practice, and completed only when the inevitable happened and the Boojum - constructed of fragments of Themersons' photograms - appeared in the image in the worrisome days of 2020 to begin the digestion of the universe. 

Inkjet prints on paper, cardboard, and tracing paper, mounted onto wooden frame. Photograph of a crucifix found on an abandoned academic worktop. 





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