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AOS - Artist, Occultist, Sensualist by John Balance. https://yadi.sk/i/WeHcK0BQqKHBq PDF, you may download or read online.

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Untitled I - Coil

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Untitled II - Coil

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Untitled III - Coil

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Untitled IV - Coil

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Untitled V - Coil

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Peter Christopherson on Tainted Love "We decided that we would try and do a version of the song that reflected more the dark side of the lyric. The idea that love could be in some way tainted or have a sinister overtone or undertone in a context of a world where sex has suddenly become a fatal activity. It resonates much more with a possibility of one person giving up his life for the love of a second one, not exactly by suicide, but by giving up everything that he could possibly give."

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Coil Live at Recession Studios 1983

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Every Day by 27 Music video by Boston based band 27. Filmed at the MSPCA and edited by Jon Whitney.

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John Balance reads "The Sick Rose" by William Blake.

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Polaroids by John Balance

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Mr. Balance

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[Peter Christopherson]. The Strength of the Country Lies in its Youth. 

16 ½ x 23 ¾", offset litho.

The first advertisement made for the infamous London fashion store, a large format poster designed by Peter Christopherson. Boy was formed in 1977 on King’s Road by John Krivine and Steph Raynor. Christopherson at that time was both a member of Throbbing Gristle, and of the design company Hipgnosis, who had been responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of the era, including Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. Krivine invited Christopherson to create the initial design for the store after seeing COUM’s poster designs for the Citizen’s Theatre in Glasgow.

Christopherson was responsible for the initial concept and design of the store, including the typography, and also the window displays, which showed an unconscious or dead young man. Genesis P-Orridge described them to Jon Savage as follows: “The idea was that a boy had climbed in to steal stuff, accidentally knocked over an electric fire and set the place on fire and burned to death. And these were the leftovers of the boy. So there was a Doc Marten boot with bits of flesh and there was a bit of his jeans and buttock and a finger with a ring and some mouldy hand. And they were in little forensic dishes in these glass boxes like you would find at the Black Museum. So this was just a parody of a mixture of forensic evidence and vandalism.” - [P-Orridge, quoted in Ford 7.4-7.5]

The window display was provocative enough that the windows were soon vandalized, a problem that would dog the early days of the shop. Boy London would go on to become on the most influential and controversial fashion lines of the 80’s. Christopherson would go on to form Coil with John Balance. A rare example of the early work of  the most innovative and provocative designer of the period, or of any period.

Source: Division Leap

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Cy Twombly, Natural History, Part 1, Mushrooms, (1974)

This is one of two portfolios made in the mid 1970s, the other being Natural History Part II (Some Trees of Italy) 1976. In both of these series, Twombly uses a quasi-scientific presentation with his characteristic expressive, gestural graphic language.

Twombly, like Rauschenberg with his collage prints, was a master of this kind of aleatoric-seeming collage, loose and dispersed but nonetheless composed. The intelligible and authentic science being practiced here is the testing of graphic structure itself - testing whether, in the end, it isn’t a matter of sensitivity. Might not structure be so permissive and flexible a thing that even the chaotic, at infinite distance, has a shiver of logic? Like John Cage (who Twombly might have picked up the fascination with mushrooms from), Twombly seems to have realized how easy art can be once you stop struggling with it! 

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Elijah Burgher, Failure Machine, colored pencil and collage on paper, 30 ¼ x 44 3/8″, 2015