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Original painting by Peter Bright (aka This Window)
Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2011.
Size: 500mm x 400mm Painting on deep box canvas. £150.00. Shipping Free.
Art Kitchen Exhibition — Tuscaloosa, Alabama
A recycled mail‑art postcard by This Window was exhibited at The Alabama Art Kitchen, an artist‑run collective based at 2626 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The piece originally served as promotional artwork for the 2009 digital release Cassette Culture, and features a photograph of Marni De Much, drummer on the limited‑edition Morgue Studio Demos CDR.
My heroes have grown old with me or they have died – maybe their death has been a way to freeze time, stop the aging process – not only for them but for me also? ‘Peter’s exhibition was inspired by iconic images he used when he was at art school in the 70s on the theme of Beauty and the Beast – including Sid and Nancy and Guy the Gorilla! I have always been a hoarder, newspaper clippings, postcards etc. It is only now that I have decided to recycle them.
Recycled Artwork and the Extractivism Series
The postcard exhibited in Alabama was later reused as the visual anchor for the Extractivism series on Bandcamp — an ongoing archival project that draws together rediscovered recordings, new digital work, remixes, and recontextualised material from the wider This Window catalogue.
Listen to Extractivism
Each volume extends the documentary thread of This Window’s practice:
Extractivism (Vol. 1) introduced the concept, blending early experiments with new digital textures.
Extractivism 2 expanded the archive with deeper finds, alternate mixes, and previously unheard material.
Subsequent volumes continue to build a layered record of the project’s evolution, echoing the long-running use of recycled postcards, photocopy textures, and mail‑art aesthetics.
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