Guitar

Theres a brilliantly well written piece in the book, a few pages long describing how depressing the early seventies was; when all the hippies who talked about revolution in the sixties had cut their hair, stopped getting high and got mortgages. Nixon was about to get a second term, and icons of the counterculture Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison were all dead.

Iv tried to express this with an image of an acoustic guitar, a symbol of that movement, alone, forgotten and in a dark room. I think the mirror was Ians idea, it really works in expressing a sense of the past, or looking back. There was a psychedelic design on the front of the guitar; im a bit annoyed that this photo stood out as the best and you cant even see all the work that went into it. I made two of them aswell, from card and metal gauze. Took ages and was a major ball ache due to UHU being the worst glue ever.