Harlequin Fish Bar Rest in Peas, Panic Over. - The Twelve Signs of Life & Death

700 x 500mm Screenprint.

This is a signed Artist Proof from an Edition of 5.

Some of you may know and some of you may care that as well as designing (if you want to call it that) I’m also a self-confessed writer. You might like to think of it as me describing an ideal world (or ideal dystopian worlds) for TDR™’s work to exist in. The reality is I’ve been at it for a long(er) time. An overall theme is ‘Be Careful What You Wish For’ — a collection of organised words in search of a publisher.

Occasionally I go overground with these texts. One occasion was a show subtitled ‘The Twelve Signs of Life & Death’ for Sheffield’s Occursus tag-teaming with Richard Bartle’s ‘Oil Paintings’ at DLA Piper’s offices over-looking our Peace Gardens (Winter 2011).

The texts could be seen as scene-setting opening paragraphs to stories I’m not interested telling, or whatever else you may want to read into them. For me they are the marks we make scratching the itch of mortality slipping between the cracks in the floorboards hidden under old carpets or beneath the peeling wallpaper of what’s left of people’s lives when there’s nothing left worth keeping.

For the show, we screen printed a limited edition of 5 (plus 5 artists proofs) of the twelve selected works (disciples).