Acid Renaissance: Arcana - coda

Artists often take photos of their exhibitions being put up, but never after they’ve been taken down: nothing to see here, please move along.

Overall the Acid Renaissance: Arcana exhibition was a success.

I sold five unframed giclée prints and four framed giclée prints, which more than paid for the posters, flyers, and other costs, so in simple terms of income and expenses it worked.

And people came along and told me that they really enjoyed it, so on a higher level it worked as well.

There may have been some book sales as well, but I’d directed people to buy them from the nearby Printed Matter and Bookbuster book shops, so I’ll have to ask them.

Ben Graham gave me a very nice review in his Urban Spaceman newsletter:

Last week Lisa and I went to see Paul Watson's wonderful exhibition Acid Renaissance: Arcana, upstairs at the 1200 Postcards pub in Hastings. It was great to see the work, which I've previously seen reproduced in Paul's zine Rituals & Declarations and elsewhere, in real life. As the title of the exhibition suggests, these striking photo images could be tarot cards, but they're not based on any existing deck or archetypes. Rather, Paul and his models create new compositions that have a symbolic, dream-like quality, as well as representing – metaphorically and allegorically rather than literally – an imagined post-capitalist future where a connection to nature and our inner magical selves triumphs over consumerism and exploitation.

If I get any more reviews I’ll add them here.