A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
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Signed and numbered in pencil by Storm Thorgerson
Art by Storm Thorgerson
Giclée in 6 colour pigment inks on Somerset enhanced 330gsm
Printed by Coriander Studios, London
Image size: 33" x 25.5"
Paper size: 26" x 17"
Now very low availabilty.
Signed and numbered in pencil by Storm Thorgerson
Art by Storm Thorgerson
Giclée in 6 colour pigment inks on Somerset enhanced 330gsm
Printed by Coriander Studios, London
Image size: 33" x 25.5"
Paper size: 26" x 17"
About
The image for the album cover reflected a line of lyric ‘visions of an empty bed’ and became a ‘vision of empty beds’ a huge number of beds stretching across the landscape. Storm wanted the right kind of beds . Victorian, wrought iron, hospital type beds, beds for patients, beds for mad people, beds for dreamers. 700 beds were taken on two trucks to Saunton Sands in Devon, England, and put on the beach one by one, complete with bedding – and arranged in the shape of a river, as a ‘river bed’. Also needed were three tractors, thirty helpers, dogs, handlers, models and one microlite. Coincidentally, this is the same location used by Alan Parker for the military sequences in the Wall movie.
With everything finally assembled and in place and every single bed in position, all was quickly abandoned due to the onset of English rain with visibility reduced to about 500ft – not far enough even to see the end of the line of beds. Two weeks later the whole procedure was repeated and a result was achieved. All this whilst the tide was turning.
The picture is 5/4 colour transparency on wide angle with available daylight. “Beds to dream in, or beds to recover in." notes Storm Thorgerson. "Real beds in a real place" looking somewhat unreal.
"He is a perfectionist in his pursuit of the completely absurd. Nobody else in the world would go to such Herculean efforts to line up dozens and dozens of identical and immaculately made up beds on a beach for no reason at all. It’s dumbfounding. You know that is was not a momentary lapse of reason. It must have been at least a month of meticulously deranged behaviour."
Douglas Adams
With everything finally assembled and in place and every single bed in position, all was quickly abandoned due to the onset of English rain with visibility reduced to about 500ft – not far enough even to see the end of the line of beds. Two weeks later the whole procedure was repeated and a result was achieved. All this whilst the tide was turning.
The picture is 5/4 colour transparency on wide angle with available daylight. “Beds to dream in, or beds to recover in." notes Storm Thorgerson. "Real beds in a real place" looking somewhat unreal.
"He is a perfectionist in his pursuit of the completely absurd. Nobody else in the world would go to such Herculean efforts to line up dozens and dozens of identical and immaculately made up beds on a beach for no reason at all. It’s dumbfounding. You know that is was not a momentary lapse of reason. It must have been at least a month of meticulously deranged behaviour."
Douglas Adams
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