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Eric Thake 'Strange Spectacle' - Collected by Ian bright & vivid an anonymous hand reaching fromEvery year, modernist Eric Thake would send his friends a hand made Christmas card. Original linocut prints, these cards have since become canonical, each observing a changing nation through one its most distinct voices. There are notes of humour, critique and poeticism. Dated 1944, Strange Spectacle transforms a twig into opera glasses. Like a literary satirist, Thake was interested in an uncommon view of common things, seeing debris like a twig as a