I went to the exhibition called Things and I liked it.

Here is a mimih, reclining underneath a line from Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell. It is one of a series of Rimbaud Mimih that were intended as epigraphs in Another Year at Work. When I made it, I was sat outside my 1880s ex-millworker’s house on an orange 1980s plastic chair with my broken ankle propped up on another orange 1980s plastic chair. This particular mimih ended up covering a patch of damaged plaster on a wall of that 1880s house. You can see the masking tape that was used to attach it, around the edges.

Now this reclining mimih is part of a Zone in Another Season in Hell. So I guess, what I’m saying is, that the inspiration for Eighty-one Epigraphs and the evolution of Another Year at Work into Another Season in Hell, can both be traced back to this series of Rimbaud Mimih.