being and becoming in the world
I have come to consider mortar & pestle pharmacy signs as representing the pestling of the Hippocratic oath by a market-driven world, aided and abetted by existential fear. One of … Continue reading The pestling of the Hippocratic oath by a market-driven world
The Porter’s Bell [a film by Peter]: Peter’s sculpture will be a ringing attack on a culture where “disorder” has reached into every aspect of everyday human life. Roy Porter … Continue reading Business is booming [Porter’s Bell]
A short protest film. Made 18 August 2021. PROGRESS hardly broke its stride: To play this short film please click here or on the image above
A headline and subtitle from the Scotsman, 29 March 2021. [I struggle to find identity, meaning and all that is important to me in ‘BIG BRANDS NAMES’]
Marketing should have no place in science. The origins of a multi-national pharmaceutical company: To play a short film on GORDON’s EXTRACT please click here or on the image above.
I came across this prominent advert in the Kirkintilloch Herald. The advert featured regularly in this paper in the years before the first world war:
I came across this stylish watercolour sketch in the CANMORE archive. This watercolour design was commissioned by John Sinclair Ltd for his shop, 90A Princes Street. In August 1916 John … Continue reading ‘Young lady take charge’