2009, Novus Ordo Seclorum,  120cm x 60cm, mixed media, with cut-up of Salvador Allende’s last speech, on plasterboard.

The revolution failed. The main instigator, of the lower echelons, idealistic in every way, believer in the potential of the nowhere man and the common good, looks up towards the goblin brothers of the aristocracy:

“CHANGE ONLY OCCURS WHEN WE DECIDE!”

Forlorn, the man walks away now aware of his place in the world, and the reality of all the history that went before him. A fool, like all the others, he simply went home, switched on the TV, read the paper and was drawn ever-increasingly into the apathetic world of a gentrified, mass consumer culture, before eventually losing his mind.

© Percival Alexander