John Gerrard's deeply moving structure in the courtyard of Somerset House – one of the defining artworks of our time – acts as a powerful metaphor for Western civilisation. Just a big black box of nothing:
Well no. It's actually meant to show a continuous film of his Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017 – "a live, real-time simulation of the landscape where a massive oil-strike gave birth to the modern world."
Was it just not working this morning? – or because it would've been nighttime in Texas? Not sure. But, you know, the symbolism of the black box works well enough. It's all bad, bad, bad….
Mick Hartley 
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