Early design stages for a limited edition wine from @fhvlondon
As long as the music is loud enough we won’t hear the world falling apart
Home stretch #negativeworldstatus #derekjarmqn #jubilee #amylnitrate #
England slowly sank into the sea #jubilee #jarman
Bring forth some pretty distractions, which you call angels
#wip
“When the state disappears people, they imprison us. The whole process of becoming a prisoner is designed to strip the person of their personal autonomy. Individuality is something which must be removed and replaced with complete conformity, implemented through the oppressive control and restrictions of the prison environment” - Kev Thakrar, Prisoners are Human Beings, Dope 22.
New editorial illustration for @dspdope @dogsectionpress #justiceforkevan
The last giant of Albion #gogmagog
Looking good! ๐ด
Things in the works โ๏ธ
Save the date! Poster + flyer design for The Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair ๐ค๐ค๐ค
“His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back his turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. The storm is what we call progress” - Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1942
“As long as the music is loud enough we won’t hear the world falling apart” - Jubilee, Derek Jarman, 1978
“It’s no coincidence that declines in union membership correlate with steep increases in inequality. But government will glibly explain vast wealth differentials as movements in ‘free’ economic forces rather than the result of policy and at same time ridicule unionists latter-day Luddites, stuck in an industrial time-warp, either too obstinate to accept or too foolish to understand the necessity of rationalising, streamlining and modernising manufacturing and services” - STRIKE!, Ruth Kinna, DOPE 20
Posted @withrepost • @tara_books Folktale Week, Day 2
TREE: The lives of the Kadars, a small indigenous community in South India, are intertwined with the forest. The trees and all that they provide are considered sacred gifts. "The forest," says Kadavul, the creator, "will give you everything you need in order to live."
From this tale of creation to stories about various inhabitants of the forest, *Speaking to an Elephant* is a collection of unusual folklore. Narrated to the authors Manish Chandi and Madhuri Ramesh by Kadar elders, these stories capture the interdependence of humans and non-humans in the forest.
Richly illustrated by @mrmrframe, the book is designed to unfold like the layers of the Kadar forest, bringing alive the trees and foliage in a tropical jungle.
Follow along this #folktaleweek as we showcase books in our catalogue that take inspiration from folktales around the world.
Saturday sketching
STRIKE! new editorial work for @dogsectionpress ๐ค๐
It’s the most wonderful time of the year #happyhalloween๐
Excellent surprise in the post today, my contributor copy of @anarchistreviewofbooks featuring my work alongside the good folks @dogsectionpress ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Another lovely surprise, my contributors copy of Dope Magazine arrived today with a great selection of stickers. Here’s my illustration accompanying a fantastic article by Ruth Kinna on prison abolition
“Prison works. So how come its apparent success is measured by increases in the prison population? If would-be criminals were in fact put off by the threat of doing time, why does the number of prisoners continue to grow?” - Dr. Ruth Kinna, Prison Works, Dope Magazine 18