Next week I'm displaying and doing a workshop at DDD14 (Death, Dying and Disposal at the University of Bath, 2019). So of course, I have been prepping mounted pictures and getting interpretation and explanation ready in a diligent and focussed manner. Needing a break, and having dived in the river a lot recently (and looking up swimmers itch), I took a trip with a friend to Bedford, as it seemed ideal to Return to Eden (no, not that one). For any of you unaware of the locatio

The Panacea museum. Where to start describing this... this... genius work of museum explanation text. Perhaps I should first state its importance: It was the home of the eight prophet, Octavia, who was bringing everlasting life and the new millennium with God. It houses the box of Joanna Southcott's prophecies to help humanity survive the millennium. It is built around the original garden of Eden. In Bedford. It was holding a conference on some of the many other apocalypse cu