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P A C I F I C  C O A S T
Salutations to you from the deregulated post-Brexit wonderland of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island, where we are simultaneously better-off in several intangible and largely theoretical areas, whilst considerably poorer in trivial matters such as culture, security, health, and food. Good news for both highly-intelligent tax-avoiding hedge fund managers and, remarkably, the mindless bacteria that proliferate in sewage. Cheers!
Anyway, you weren't lured here to listen to my cynical and jaded comments about the irreversible self-inflicted paroxysms of a once tolerably well-run country, were you? I didn't think so. Instead, perhaps you might be interested in this new screen print which we are releasing to celebrate the operation for Twenty Whole Years of the Slowly Downward Manufactory: Pacific Coast.
Pacific Coast has been entirely re-editioned for 2024, with new separations taken from a new high-resolution photograph of the original painting. The print is made with eleven layers of colour and hand-printed on a beautiful 410gsm tub-sized paper which is traditionally made in a water-powered mill in Wookey Hole, Somerset. The paper size is 62cm X 60cm, while the print size is 50cm x 50cm.
The original painting, Pacific Coast, became quite well known as the cover of Radiohead's 2003 record Hail to the Thief, and it was the first in what became a series of eight paintings in this style, all on 1.5 metre square canvases with bright acrylic colours formed into rough sketch maps of various world cities that featured, in one way or another, in the ongoing War Against Terror. Onto these maps were inserted words or short phrases. Seven of the paintings used words from Thom's lyrics to the songs on the record, but Pacific Coast used only words from the streets of Los Angeles (with one exception).
Anyway, that's probably enough tedious rambling from me. Feel free to click the link below if you're interested...

 
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