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AFTER HOURS II (2020)
AFTER HOURS II is the second state of the 2019 AFTER HOURS I. The courtyard of the Louvre has been invaded by a number of etchings by Albrecht Durer on leave from the Louvre's Print Department. These prints
celebrate God's magnificent domination of earth and skies (and, incidentally, of Durer's own dominance over their imagery.)
God's salvation of the pious, evoked in the Latin text (Rex Tremendae) is from the Requiem Mass. The words float in the sky, where Saint George, supervised by an angel, is in the act of slaying the flying dragon.
These images lead me to some more earthly dragons: the dinosaurs whose extinction 60 million years ago were brought about by another bolt from heaven, the Yucatan asteroid. Here my thoughts turn to the global threats to our own time and to the rest of all our own planet's species.