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This collage isn't a comment on what you might call...materialistic greed(?) No, no. Yes, once upon a time I might have adopted a 'lofty' stance regarding money...as if I didn't like it, want it, need it or value the making of it - huh! The tinpot anarchist...or armchair anarchist...
Who doesn't like making money? But I confess to never having been good at it...aside from sticking with proper jobs, the last of which I stuck at for 15 years! As for making money from Art - ha-ha!
No, it's a...collision of images, as was always the way with collage. Sometimes they can convey a message, of course. Look at the early Russian collages...so enthusiastic about the revolution! Which brings us back to the subject of money-making and capitalism. Someone recently used the phrase 'post-capitalism' in an FB post. Eh? No-one told me it was over. Mind you, the UK will probably soon have a self-confessed 'socialist' as Prime Minister, so who knows.
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Good lord!!! Here's a newly-released, previously unheard Sun Ra performance at Excelsior Mill, Atlanta, in 1984...playing the Wurlitzer pipe organ! If you know anything about Sun Ra, you know he could and would play any keyboard. Well, 'The Mighty Wurlitzer' is put through it's paces by Ra, as you'd expect. We've heard him spectacularly shredding synths before and this concert is no exception. Only Ra could make such an old-fashioned instrument sound like...the future? Well, a future Hell, perhaps. But it's totally captivating.
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