Canto XXVI/4: Mount Purgatory

Silkscreen page proof approved by the artist and signed / initialled by him, taken from the original Talford Press edition of 185, printed on 100% rag, acid-free Inveresk (Somerset) paper

page size 39.5 x 31 cm

1979 – 1983

The spiral cut-up of xeroxed positives and negatives in this image suggests the churn of waters that swallow the ship of Ulysses, as well as the water-covered hemisphere imagined by the mediaeval mind. Out of this arises, as if in a dream inset, a glimpse of Mount Purgatory – made from sea and mountain fragments from the Boy's Own Paper.