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Derek Jarman: Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping

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The Billboard Promised Land

The story kind of emerges in like two places in his life so after so he goes to America has a great time and then what and comes up with this phrase the billboard promised land. At one point he just says at the top of the page like jettison everything that came before as though it's like rubbish. He had this kind of like throw away attitude towards some of his work which was lost in the archive for a long time. Philip: I get the sense from Tony P expography that he didn't maybe get the kind of a claim that he was hoping for as a designer but made a decision that he was gonna pursue his own path through his own artistic practice rather than just

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