Work No. 754; Extinguishing the Sun

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Extinguishing the Sun ( am & pm )
   Extinguishing the Sun ( am & pm )
c. Michael St.Mark 2015

Posted on the morning of the partial solar eclipse ( 20th March 2015 ) that few people got to see, due to the unrelenting overhead blanket of greyness that’s been covering most of the country recently...
* update..only to clear to unbroken blue sky after noon

Comment on the absolute futility of man’s efforts to control and manipulate nature, basically similar to that of trying to extinguish the sun’s nuclear fire and light via a single water fountain here on earth.

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Work No. 753; Oik the reptilian shape-shifting chancellor ( ES Update)

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Oik, the Shape-Shifting Chancellor’s  true face ( Two-part adulterated headline Work )
c. Art Axis 2015

* UPDATE 2017 Osborne appointed editor of the Evening Standard after sneaking out the back door with Cameron after their Brexit calamity.
A budget case of Jobs for the Boys if ever there was one
Discarded Evening Standard  ( another Tory-owned rag ) front page, left on a 2nd class passenger seat, Network Rail.
Budget Day, 2015.
Subject to ” Scrunch Art “, or “crumple art”, a selective physical crease manipulation of figurative photographs to form
hideously distorted caricatures beyond the wildest dreams of even the Spitting Image puppet team!
A useful tool for protest artists in the expression of angst towards corrupt power-broking individuals.
Invented by artist Michael St.Mark, 2007.

Shape-shifter Osborne – “Shifts the shape of the stats, shifts the truth about the shape of life in Britain today.”

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Work No. 752: High Voltage Hovis the Homeless Angel

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high voltage hovis
High Voltage Hovis, the Homeless Angel
© Michael St.Mark 2015

Street person “Hovis”
Old Street, E. London

We stooped to chat with this pale and drawn little fellow, sitting next to a high tension line junction box in the drizzle ( !! ) ; ignored nay shunned by nearly all of the smartly-attired young people passing ..and asked to hear his story.

His street name is Hovis; ex-army and fell on hard times after his marriage broke down. Originally from Yorkshire, we suggested it may be a slightly better life up there..
” Yorkshire’s closed”, he replied.. ” no work”, .. “there hasn’t been much happening up there since Thatcher closed the pits in the 80s”.

So here’s a likable, friendly, humble and inoffensive guy, reduced to wrapping in a silver heat-reflector whilst squatting on a dirty damp pavement with an empty polystyrene cup for hope – and on Mothers Day of all days..

We gave him some money, shook his hand and wished him well.

Hovis may be a nobody in the eyes of the world, but he wears bright bright angel wings

† We believe the first comprehensive highlight of the plight of the homeless including their background stories and the politics behind it to comprise an artwork or to be featured in the media – press or television.

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‡ Update, winter 2017/ 2018;
Images of street people rough sleeping and airing of their plight and individual background stories now seriously trending in the mainstream media.

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