John StezakerThe End 1975

The End is a collage made by overlapping nine postcards of London’s Houses of Parliament in a vertical row. The overlapping functions as cropping, obscuring the lower half of the postcards. This results in a sequence of sky shots, into which the upper part of Big Ben, some of the tips of the Houses of Parliament and the tower of Westminster Cathedral rise. The artist has commented that a possible subtitle for this work could be Images of Big Ben arranged roughly by the time of the day, as he placed the postcards in order of the deepening shades of the sky, beginning with the darkest, midnight blue at the bottom and ending with a pale, hazy whitish-blue at the top (letter to the author, 26 October 2007)… (read more)