Print The Darkness

Print The Darkness (2003)

Oil on board, 30.5x30.5cm

Private collection

This is a companion painting to London A Pilgrimage. The image in the bottom right is a still from Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, showing the character of Mark filming a detective who is watching the windows of the building that he is in. The diagram next to this shows confirmed and conjectured tunnels under central London, from Peter Laurie's Beneath The City Streets: A Private Enquiry into Government Preparations for National Emergency. The polaroid photographs above show the entrance to the deep level tube line at Goodge Street on Tottenham Court Road. This was built as an express line directly underneath the Northern Line, although never used for this purpose, and instead used as shelters during the second world war. Part of Goodge Street was used as Eisenhower's headquarters, and in Beneath The City Streets the author supposes these may have been constructed in the expectation that Germany would develop and use an atomic bomb on London. The photograph in the top left hand corner is of St George's Bloomsbury, shot from an alleyway that is no longer open to the public.

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