1979
(10 negatives)
From Hags book ‘How Things Are’
Western civilisation’s chauvinism and greed – its self–importance and dogmatic belief that its religion, democracy and technology can be exported and forced upon the whole planet – ignores or worse still, destroys the richness and depth of knowledge embodied in other philosophies and cultures from which the West has much to learn. Our arrogance will backfire.
We live on one planet and our species will only survive by adopting attitudes of tolerance and respect for our different ways of being on personal, cultural and spiritual levels. Living needs to be in harmony with the natural world. I believe that good will win, for good accepts that there is no competition, but enough for all.
Originally commissioned by David Costa of Jubilee Graphics, later called ‘Wherefore Art’, for the recording by Louis Clarke, an arranger for Electric Light Orchestra. The cover had his portrait and different sand where the lake and pagoda now is shown below.
Louis Clarke (per-spek-tive) JETLP218 1979
The re- worked version (with the pagoda) was later used as an Athena International poster entitled ‘Hallucination 2’
‘I had a digital print sale which they liked but mentioned they would prefer it without the pagoda. Simple matter these days to remove. For me it has lost balance and the memory of that wonderful sunny day I shot the Pagoda in Kew Gardens London.’ Hag
This photograph without the pagoda is not found in the book ‘How Things Are’
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Created by Hag without the use of a computer by Combination printing.
Collage Montage Surreal Photography.
