....You are walking down the street in Camberwell, minding your own business at 10.00am on a February morning..........suddenly a bizarre image confronts you in the front window of the local gallery. Sitting in a bath tub full of baked beans, with a pound of sausages on top of his head and a couple of real thick cut chips up his nose is Mark McGowan; obviously another troubled artist who can't get a real job and conform to what society expects from us. Is this live installation really going to pay the bills and feed the kids!!!
What surprised me more than anything was the shit that came out of this guys mouth as I interivewed him with my camera. His protest was about the great british breakfast and it's decline. I say fuck off the fat and get fit, don't just sit there whingeing in a silent protest besides it's only half a breakfast innit? You know what I mean like? Where are the eggs, bacon, fried bread and black pudding? Surely a working class artist/man knows that a breakfast is more than just sausage, chips and beans!!!
Anyway, I took some great photos of him with my Mamiya RZ67 and went back to the gallery 3 times to give him a copy. Each time I went there he was not there, he didn't finish his sit in protest like he promised and gave some lame excuse about being cold and sick, well what do you expect in Feb? He should be living in Queensland like me if he can't stand the cold and not sitting on his fat arse whingeing for a living.
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That's gotta be the best (worst?) possible (anti)ad for the great English tradition of breaking fast in the morning - to have his silly ass sat in it. I have followed the link. The guy is a complete idiot.
Good picture though.
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