This series of gouaches/collages was painted in 1971 after an extended stint as Gastdozent at the school of art in Kassel which at the time was being run on pseudo-Maoist lines by the students themselves. Someone somewhere had mistakenly thought I would prove a beacon of solidarity. However, I did travel to Berlin with Red-Cell No. 6 and sleep in a bed which touched the Berlin Wall. As a result of this episode, and its contrast with the deep humanism of Brahms, I used the cards I had collected to make a pictorial commentary on the German Requiem which I had been lucky enough to sing in as part of the chorus in the recording made by the Philharmonia under Otto Klemperer. The occasional irony shines through in these pictures which are also I hope not entirely without affection in their play with text, parallel text (from A Human Document needless to say), and image.

Works / Texts (1992),  pp. 54-57.

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