Chromacolour acrylic on MDF board 36x33cm. Completed 13th October 2011. Private collection.

When I was a young man I came across an English punk band called Crass. I bought an album (Christ – the album) which came with an anarchist booklet titled ‘A series of shock slogans and mindless token tantrums‘- and I soon started to realise that the world was not as it had seemed. No longer did I think that everybody enjoyed the realtively safe and comfortable environment I existed in. There were actually an enormous number of people who weren’t getting a fair go. I started to read more about the world and a name kept coming up as a great author on many subjects. That writer is Noam Chomsky. He is an outspoken critic of war and captalism, one of the few people, for the love of humanity, raise their voice and speak out stridently, always calling out for justice and equality. He is also a harsh critic of elitism, which rings a loud crystal clear bell with this artist.

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