HARMONY.
FOREVER.

AWAY IN TIDE I KNOW THESE BATTERED SHORES WILL TRY AGAIN TOMORROW THAT YOU MIGHT STAY.

Shan Kelley, ‘Harmony,’ 2014.  Image transfer, gesso, pine wood. 78 in. x 2 in. x 2 in.

In 1992, Richard Hamilton returned to his his 1956 collage Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?, having been commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to to demonstrate an artist’s use of a computer to generate art for the programme QED. Inspired by his earlier work with Quantel Paintbox technologies in the late 1980s, Hamilton constructed a digital collage  featuring artworks, images gleaned from magazines, advertisements, popular films, and Hamilton’s own photography. Hamilton included a work by the Canadian collective General Idea, a portion of their vast series on viral imagery, activism, and the AIDS crisis, Imagevirus – based, in turn, on the American artist Robert Indiana’s 1966 painting LOVE – displayed in this reiteration as a single canvas on a wall of circuit boards.