Since 1999 Ash Pure
has lived in an alternate London. He is an explorer in a city that lies
tantalisingly close to the one we know.
Presented in The Lion
and The Unicorn is the City of Thamesis, London's super powered alter ego, its
mythologised, epic soul. In this absorbing alternate landscape stone gods look
out over all too familiar urban decay while Utopian ziggurats gleam, almost
within reach in the near distance.
In September 2011 The
Lion and The Unicorn Volume 0, issue one was launched at the Welcome to
Thamesis exhibition, at Shoreditch town hall. An immersive experiential performance
took guests deeper into this alternate fiction, placing them in the heart of a
trans-media narrative, a post millennial urban fantasy which Pure describes as
new, living, British myth.
Giclee prints in
stark black and white and stunning colour, a signed and numbered first edition
of 200, limited edition card sets and poster comics solidify this myth into a
beautiful array of highly covetable objects, while the story world continues to
grow via the Social Network.
“Innovative and
unique ... putting the big companies to shame.”
No comments:
Post a Comment