Work No. 960; Regiment of Conformity

Dada is the revolt of the personality threatened on so many sides – a revolt against levelling, stupidity and destruction. It is the distress cry of creative people against banality.” – Richard Huelsenbeck


A Regiment of Conformity
Michael St.Mark 2017

Parking bays with monochrome cars, Hendon NW4

Long gone are the days when UK roads were teeming with a fair selection of multicolored vehicles streaming up and down the M ways like sweets tumbling from a Quality Street box. Yer average A to B  device trendy coat of choice is now around 2/3 a difficult decision between black, gray, white or silver.
An outward manifestation of inward meek acceptance of psychological enslavement to societal and peer pressure to “”fit in” ?

So who’s left to champion the individual in breaking through the rancid sea of identikit sterile drabness pervading society in the early 21st C?

London Dada –  “creating outside the frame” TM since 2005

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London Dada Work No. 959; tHIRST II – portrait of a creatively dehydrated artist


tHIRST II
( Portrait of a creatively dehydrated artist )
Art Axis 2017

Discarded flattened fast food drinks container lid with straw languishing on a tradesman’s’ entrance back alley access road, High Barnet
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Second in the series, timed to coincide with Damien Hirst’s latest exercise in organized cynical plagiarism passing for an art show, titled ” Treasures From the Wreck of the Unbelievable”, unique concept for which he lifted hook line & sinker from London Dada artist Dingo’s 2008 WorkLoggus Fishious Extraordinarious; an Unbelievable Treasure from the Deep “

Links to tHIRST 1

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Work No. 958; Power Outage in Mid Herts


Power Outage in Mid Herts
Michael St.Mark 2017

Power-supply is an exhausting business, just ask the experts
A terminally-tired engineer recharges batteries after what looks like was a heavy duty morning..

Annual fair & street market, Welwyn GC
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