Wild Grid with Flowers

Our artist friend Polly Apfelbaum designed this poster for us. Inspired by the following poem by autistic poet Tito Mukhopadhyay and British WWII codebreaker Alan Turing, also autistic, Polly encoded this poem into her design. ______________________________________ "When you are trying to think blue And end up thinking black You can be sure to be frustrated Time and again it happens to me And I get quite helpless Otherwise why should I get up and spin myself Spinning my body Brings some sort of harmony to my thoughts So that I can centrifuge away all the black thoughts I realise that the faster I spin The faster I drive away the black When I am sure that even the last speck of black Has gone away from me Then I spin back in the opposite direction And pull the blue thoughts into myself It depends on how much blue I want If I want more blue I have to spin faster Otherwise not so fast It's just like being a fan The trouble is when I stop spinning My body scatters And it's so difficult to collect it together again" __________________________________________ Edition of 50. Five artist proofs. Five color silk screen print on white paper 12 1/2 x 19 inches