Dimensions: image: 611 x 510 mm
Copyright: © Peter Phillips | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: So, this is Peter Phillips' "Custom Print No. I." There's no date listed, but it looks like a real explosion of pop art energy. What do you make of this chaotic composition? Curator: It screams the 60s, doesn't it? A collage of desires—cars, women, abstract patterns. It's like flipping through magazines, a visual feast of consumer culture. But it’s also oddly… lonely, don’t you think? Editor: Lonely? I hadn't considered that! It seems so vibrant and loud. Curator: Maybe the emptiness is in the artifice, that glossy, untouchable surface. Perhaps it's the cost of all that "customization." Still, it's a fascinating snapshot of the era’s obsessions. Editor: I guess I was too caught up in the bright colors to notice the undercurrent. Thanks for pointing that out! Curator: My pleasure, it seems we both are getting better acquainted with Peter Phillips today.