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E C O N O M I C P O S S I B I L I T I E S
F OR Y O U R G R A N D C H I L D R E N
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Here are nine prints to consider as we tread carefully around the crumbling volcanic rim of financial irregularity. The title of each print - and the title for the series itself - Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren - are all phrases from the index to John Lanchester's excellent book on the 2007-2009 financial crisis entitled 'Whoops! - Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No-one Can Pay'.
These are new editions of these prints, and they are made with black ink as black as a barrel of crude and gold ink as gold as the fixtures in Trump Tower.
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But wait a minute - are they relevant? Of course, valuable lessons have been learned from the financial disaster of 2007-2009. No longer do we come across predatory lending or excessive risk-taking by financial institutions. Toxic assets? There's no way that could happen again. So perhaps these images are souvenirs, reminders of a time now passed? Hmm.
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As an aside, I'm sure I remember reading, somewhere or other, that financial apocalypses such as this are, each time they happen, described in increasingly infantile terms. The crash of 1929 was termed a Depression, to avoid calling it a Panic. (These events had until then been known as Panics.) By the late 1980s the term was Recession, kind of like a man's hairline. By the 21st century we had Credit Crunch, the sort of highly-sugared breakfast cereal you might have until you've become childish enough to ask for a bowl of Brexit. Never mind, never mind.
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Anyway, this is all academic, because, as we have seen, lessons have been learned. There's absolutely no way that anything like that could ever happen again, not like it did before. No, non, nein. No way.
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Each of these speculations of fiscal fallibility is a 2 colour screen prints, printed on Somerset 300gsm paper from St Cuthberts Mill in the south west of England. The paper size 325mm x 260mm (12.7" x 10.2", while the print size 250 mm x 200 mm (9.8" x 7.8".
Each is from an edition of 199 prints signed by the artist and blind-embossed with the Slowly Downward Manufactory seal Please explore further possibilities below.
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