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Witchfinder Generals #2

We switch on our devices and see the New Age of the Witchfinder Generals. Perched on their glass thrones. Photocopy and use these images as charms against their powers.

Photocopy of a photograph of a performance in the SUB071, Leiden, sometime in 2007. A reminder of Little Gwion dipping his thumb into the digital cauldron.

A photograph of a photocopy of a pencil sketch of Ainu women from the book, “Life and Survival in the Arctic”. To be used as a charm against Witchfinder Generals.

Witchfinder Generals #1

All hail the New Age of the Witchfinder Generals. Wrapp’d in a cloak of goblinned code. Photocopy and use these images as charms against their powers.

Photograph of a photocopy of a digitally altered drawing made by the curator of a photograph of a “typical” Dutch family from the early 1900s. The digital extras were originally added by Mr N Spong. The drawing was shown at the “Music Shouldn’t Look Like This” exhibition, Leiden 2004.

Photograph of a photocopy of a sketch made by the curator of Hungarian horsemen. From a postcard bought at the Museum of Ethnology in Budapest, 2003.

I Never Tell Anyone Anything #2

A mini-series of posts dedicated to our Patron Saint, (somewhat slipped), Eddie B. Why should we tell each other anything anyway? Our emotions are being turned into clean code. Very soon we will be shared to death.

Members of the CPSU, pen and ink drawing, photocopied, then extra colour applied with coloured pencils. From the book, Russia from the Inside by Robert Kaiser and Hannah Jopling Kaiser, 1980 (Withdrawn from Lancashire Library 1991.)

Pen and ink sketch of a photograph of Uncle Lawrence on a day trip, late 1940s. Flanked by two bowler hatted men drawn from the curator’s imagination. Colour pencil added to photocopy.

Our Visions Became Laden With Willow-Wept Grief

To the people of the British Isles. Although these are times of great division and no little confusion. Remember, your greatest strength is your easygoing tricksiness. I have witnessed this at first hand in factories and at check-out counters. Keep it up.

Drawing my strength from Watkins, I bring balm in the form of two early 1990s photocopies, aligned on the Mill Hill-Felling leyline. A North Yorkshire spanner is thrown amidships, courtesy of some pre-Foot and Mouth sheep. Staring into the camera with a disinterested patience – and the countryside not caring.