DAMIEN’S LOUNGE
mixed media
38 x 20 x 8 inches
2020

Advertising from an alternate universe in which certain people are not famous.

Damien Hirst was quoted as saying “Sometimes when you are drunk you see better”. For me this almost, but not quite, explains half-animals in formaldehyde and paintings made of hundreds of thousands of butterfly wings. As if we weren’t busy extincting thousands of species, Hirst truly put the dreadful in enfant terrible.

In an alternate universe Hirst is a bartender in a run-down section of London.