Protest & Occupation
BRICKS magazine
Digital illustration to accompany article by Eleni Zachariou exploring the intertwined histories of protest and occupation in the UK.
Read the full article here.
The article talks about the actions of protestor and organiser Olive Morris, who in 1972 climbed to the roof of the building she was occupying to escape eviction. The iconic image became the cover of the Squatter's Handbook in 1979. Paying tribute to that image, I collaged aspects of the original photograph of Olive with drawn and cut-out elements to build up the scene.
Published in BRICKS magazine online 11th May 2021.
Writer - Eleni Zachariou
Politics Editor - Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin
Art Director - Joe Joiner
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloth Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats, 1899