I mentioned creating another collage ... Below is my first collage made during the run up to our first non-leaving of the EU on 29th March. From what you have read so far, you may think I'm a political animal, but I'm not by nature. For the first time in my life, I have been so dismayed and distressed by the sinister turn in our national politics that turning to Art and humour has been a way of coping with the hideous situation that my country and therefore I am now in. I didn't ask for any of this!
At least, while I'm cutting and sticking or writing I can express something and push the lurking terror of a crash-out into the background. I can't believe what's happening. I can't believe that a peace time government is making provision for stockpiling food, medicines, rationing and rioting in the event of crashing out. What the bloody hell is going on? It is a very dangerous place that we are in and what makes it so horrible is that it is a few of us doing it to all of us.
That's where 'Queen for the Day' came from. In my head, I can escape my lack of effect and impact. I am a nobody, I count for nothing and I have been bullied and shoved towards the precipice and told by Bugger-Lugs Johnson that he has the moral authority to do it! What??? There's 60 odd million live in the LA and most of us, if indeed any of us, did not vote for this current, frightening state of affairs - even if we voted to leave.
The cartoonists and satirists of Private Eye, the Guardian and the New Statesmen have kept me sane.
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