Summary
The End (the film) is a collage comprising three identical postcard-sized images of the clock tower of Big Ben, viewed against a brightly coloured sunset, fixed in a column to black paper. The artist has described the work:
It’s a picture of Big Ben with an unreal, ‘apocalyptic’ sunset – the result of a combination of atmospheric pollution and the degradation of the printing plates. The original was one of those giant postcards sold in souvenir shops of a scene of the Thames and Westminster with Big Ben in the corner. I cut this postcard-sized fragment from the original; I thought of it as a cinematic zoom in. The image has been in my possession since my teens and I kept it on the mantelpiece wherever I lived as a student (and after) as a reminder of this apocalyptic possibility of an art subsumed by popular culture… (read more)
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