UDWFG presents Shintaro Kago Industrial Revolution and World War Accessories Peter Mark Adams interprets the

Peter Mark Adams interprets the frescoes through the distinct performative lens of the ritualist drawing on current scholarship across the disparate fields of classical philology

and describes how the elemental world we inhabit relates to the archetypal realm and the wonderful ways that contact manifests in the natural world

'The Ronin and the Sea'

A wrench falling from dead hands onto cold metal

UDWFG presents Shintaro Kago Industrial Revolution and World War Accessories Peter Mark Adams interprets theYou know Kagos iconic image of a head exploding and it being filled with cheap plastic junk, mass produced goods? The reason it's horrifying is because it suggests that we arent that special. As a civilisation we mass produce plastic shit because we are mass produced shit. We are a joke told through our pointless repetitive lives, and its that black joke thats at the heart of Shintaro Kagos work.