Existence is Unhappiness

Rare 23 ½" x 36 poster by Barney Bubbles. " Existence is Unhappiness" Fold-out Poster. This is a special fold-out section only for the May 1968 Edition of OZ Magazine (#12), the sometimes controversial and always outrageous counter-culture publication from the London Underground Press.

"This sheet is is a dart board - one throws a projectile, or uses a blow pipe with a needle in a fletched cork perhaps, at Donald Duck, then reads off the appropriate codes and learns one's fate. I invented the game and wrote the instructions amongst other things. With post cards by various artists including John Dove's quartet of breasts (lower left, top row, far left).The wheels on left are the landing gear of the TSR2 bomber that my dad worked on, Barney put them in, said, "Here's something for your dad." As others have pointed out the poster is influenced by Paolozzi. But my original drawing, spotted by Barney, was derived from a Paul Klee watercolour of a figure in a skirt, which in turn could be similar to a portrait of St. James(?) in the Book of Kells." Excerpts from 2009/01/06/rick-poyner-on-barney-bubbles-intricately-reflexive-nature/

This copy has been kept flat the last 50 years or so and so its almost without any sign of fold lines.