Apocalypse Now
Christopher Wool
In the shadow of the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash, Wool’s Apocalypse Now became the painting of the decade. Taking the quotation from Captain Colby’s letter home in Francis Ford Coppola's war epic, Wool distorts the phrase, removes the emotion or madness inherent in the original and presents with telegraphic urgency. By removing punctuation, correct spacing and line alignment, he forces the view to work to translate the text into a coherent phrase. Wool’s piece is cold and direct, a hiccup in the comprehension adding to a feeling of the untethered. He captures the fear and euphoria of the 1980s, and of the periods that have come after by combining a dark sense of unease with high-flying success.
Tuesday 20th October
The Moon continues through Capricorn, associated in biodynamics with the root aspect of the plant, and comes into conjunction with Pluto, also in Capricorn. This meeting draws our attention to a distant world unknown to the ancient skywatchers. They followed seven wandering lights: the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Pluto, too faint to see with the naked eye, was not among them. It was discovered in 1930 by the astronomer Clyde Tombaugh and is now classified as a dwarf planet, following its reclassification in 2006. Its name was suggested by Venetia Burney, an eleven-year-old girl from Oxford, who proposed the Roman god of the underworld. These distant worlds have also left their mark on the naming of elements: uranium takes its name from Uranus, neptunium from Neptune, and plutonium from Pluto. Sitting side by side in the periodic table as elements 92, 93 and 94, they follow the same sequence as their celestial namesakes moving outwards from the Sun—a curious connection between our mapping of the heavens and our understanding of matter.
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