![]() ![]() Inspired by skateboard culture and the west coast character graffiti of Twist he returned to London and picked up a spraycan and started painting weird fanged vampire bunnies everywhere. ![]() In 1990 PURE EVIL left the Poll Tax Riots of London behind and went to live in California where he spent 10 years ingesting weapons grade psychedelics, thinking about stuff, making electronic music and printing t-shirts. With this busy background (Sir Thomas was later canonised) it is only natural that Pure Evil should explore the darker side of the wreckage of Utopian dreams and the myth of the Apocalypse, a belief in the life-changing event that brings history with all its conflicts to an end. Who is Pure Evil? To understand a bit about Pure Evil it is illuminating to know that he is a descendant of Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor who wrote the controversial work Utopia and who was later beheaded by King Henry VIII. ![]() One historical question remains unanswered: to what extent did they influence that pillar of modern cinematic comedy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail? left there was both strange and enlightening: killer rabbits, animal-human hybrids, small figures lassoing chunks of text. The usual imagery of the rabbit in Medieval art is that of purity and helplessness – that’s why some Medieval portrayals of Christ have marginal art portraying a veritable petting zoo of innocent, nonviolent, little white and brown bunnies going about their business in a field. Unusual things found in medieval manuscripts Marginalia was sometimes added by the original manuscript creators themselves. Hunting scenes, also commonly appear in medieval marginalia, and "this usually means that the bunny is the hunted however, as we discovered, often the illuminators decided to change the roles around. Often, in medieval manuscripts’ marginalia we find odd images with all sorts of monsters, half man-beasts, monkeys, and more, Even in religious books the margins sometimes have drawings that simply are making fun of monks, nuns and bishops. SPOILER: it’s those vicious Lumbards again. Now a funny video unveils the mystery of another great classic of illustrated manuscripts: snail-fighting knights. 2 colour screenprint with hand-finishing Unique signed 1/1 320gsm Fedrigoni paper Print: 70 x 70cm In all the kingdom of nature, does any creature threaten us less than the gentle rabbit? Though the question may sound entirely rhetorical today, our medieval ancestors took it more seriously - especially if they could read illuminated manuscripts, and even more so if they drew in the margins of those manuscripts themselves. We already talked about killer rabbits in the margins of medieval books. ![]()
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