Manifesto Card

This is the poem, nee` manifesto that provided the name The Fast Quiet Underground. This version was capitalised for the printed card used in my degree show. We each had these 'business' cards printed up, but always being out of step, I ignored the standard picture of my work on one side, name and address on the other and used it as another piece of Art work. The whole year's cards were laid out on a table at the entrance to the show, 25 deep, at the end I still have 25 left. I learnt my lesson.

The above and below texts on the front of the card are literal translations in Latin and Esperanto, the oldest and newest of the European languages. Sometimes I think that I have spent more time working with the mechanics and translation of language; whether it is the pursuit of the appropriate words to describe how I am feeling to my wife or trying to express some unnecessarily confusing technical concept to my managers at work; than anything else.

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