was to throw into the cramped space of a living room some representation of all the objects and ideas crowding into our post-war consciousness: my âhomeâ would have been incomplete without its token life-force so Adam and Eve struck a pose along with the rest of the gadgetry. The collage had a didactic role in the context of a didactic exhibition, This is Tomorrow, in that it attempted to summarize the various influences that were beginning to shape post-war Britian. We seemed to be taking a course towards a rosy future and our changing, Hi-Tech, world was embraced with a starry-eyed confidence; a surge of optimism which took us into the 1960s. Though clearly an âinteriorâ there are complications that cause us to doubt the categorisation. The ceiling of the room is a space-age view of Earth. The carpet is a distant view of people on a beach. It is an allegory rather than a representation of a room.
(Quoted in Exteriors, Interiors, Objects, People, p.44.)â
Its hard to not think about this in relation to our Covid times, what we see ahead for the futureâŚ. The great thing about collage is it doesnât have to make sense in an illusory way, rather, itâs a great way to draw together imagery to bringing a wider idea into view, one not yet articulated
2087
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