There is good and there is evil. In between, somewhere, is the duck.
These words, spoken by Accrington artist and visionary Tim Whittaker, come back to haunt us in these ribald, brittle, stretched months of 2020 and 2021, where ghosts of the threshing floor rise to meet us.
These photocopies hark back to another, happier time and maybe presage a third.
We just need to locate the duck.
You have to act. Burn them, commune with their indolent, witless, stolid spirit. Or photocopy them endlessly to erase their presence.
Maybe you can draw on humanity’s creative commons to give you another answer. It’s what the internet is for.
I’m staying in my lane. To be precise, Hollins Lane. But that stops in Baxenden. Where then?
An iphone 7 photograph of a photocopy of an iphone 4 photograph, depicting Accrington ring road, which expertly filleted a town that sat (thanks to the conjoining of Burnley and Blackburn Roads) on a perfect North-South, East-West axis.
It is time for action. It is time to find Tim Whittaker’s duck. To find the auguries for the duck, download and photocopy, and then set alight in obeisance to the deity of your choosing.
It is the only way to commune with a future England, whilst processing 70 years of a couch potato worldview, held together by Airfix glue.
When using a chafing dish (or similar vessel) please heed the words of Scorpio Murtlock. Appease the shades of your dwelling and burn laurel and alder before watching the copy of Accrington Pals Health Centre go up in smoke.
(Students of the photocopy will notice the role of the small circular cut out piece of paper, a refugee from some binding action. See it as a comet coming.
An iphone 7 photograph of a photocopy of an iphone 4 photograph, depicting where Saint James’ Infants School once stood in Clayton le Moors. What fun we had in 1975.
It is time for action. It is time to find Tim Whittaker’s duck. To find the auguries for the duck, download and photocopy, and then set alight in obeisance to the deity of your choosing.
It is the only way to commune with a future England, whilst processing 70 years of a couch potato worldview, held together by Airfix glue.
When using a chafing dish (or similar vessel) please heed the words of Scorpio Murtlock. Appease the shades of your dwelling and burn laurel and alder before watching the copy of Accrington Pals Health Centre go up in smoke.
(Students of the photocopy will notice the role of the small circular cut out piece of paper, a refugee from some binding action. See it as a comet coming.
An iphone 7 photograph of a photocopy of an iphone 4 photograph, depicting Accrington Pals Health Centre (NHS). A fitting tribute to the 11th (Service) Battalion of the East Lancashire Regiment. It’s just up the road from where the New Era Youth Club was.
It is time for action. It is time to find Tim Whittaker’s duck. To find the auguries for the duck, download and photocopy, and then set alight in obeisance to the deity of your choosing.
It is the only way to commune with a future England, whilst processing 70 years of a couch potato worldview, held together by Airfix glue.
When using a chafing dish (or similar vessel) please heed the words of Scorpio Murtlock. Appease the shades of your dwelling and burn laurel and alder before watching the copy of Accrington Pals Health Centre go up in smoke.
(Students of the photocopy will notice the role of the small circular cut out piece of paper, a refugee from some binding action. See it as a comet coming.
