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STEPHEN WALTER
Flood, 2018, is also an altered map that has been overlaid with a Japanese Letraset Screen Tone. It shows the area with the highest percentage Brexit vote in the 2016 EU Referendum - the Boston and South Holland Districts - covered in a wave pattern

Flood, 2018

33 x 21cm

Acrylic, Letraset, printed map collage, on board.

Flood, 2018, is also an altered map that has been overlaid with a Japanese Letraset Screen Tone. It shows the area with the highest percentage Brexit vote in the 2016 EU Referendum - the Boston and South Holland Districts - covered in a wave pattern

Flood, 2018, is also an altered map that has been overlaid with a Japanese Letraset Screen Tone. It shows the area with the highest percentage Brexit vote in the 2016 EU Referendum - the Boston and South Holland Districts - covered in a wave pattern from this foreign product.

There is an aesthetic relationship between my work and the repetitive patterns and symbols found on these screen tones used in Japanese Manga. The result is both pleasing and intriguing. However, the work comes with a certain amount irony. Here, the notion of ‘a flood of foreigners’ is taken as a metaphor alongside the literal yearly flooding of this fenland district; and the overlay from a Letraset from Japan, previously a British made product.