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The Pando Rug

I always like to include humour in my work as well as the subversion element. The pando rug actually indicates a little bit more than just the humour it's a nod towards the Victorian tradition of shooting bears and tigers, skinning them and putting them out as rugs in their dining room. So you know of course it's not done now but that's what the panda skin was for. It's obviously a nylon mock panda rug which I bought in a junk shop in Hastings for five pounds. And is it right that essentially you assembled that environment entirely from what you found in Hastings at that time? Yes absolutely.

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