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Billboard on The Highway: Control Your Anger
appears on a billboard on the highway. This self-referential, almost hallucinatory aspect is intended to evoke higher levels of consciousness - an enduring preoccupation of the 1960s counter culture movement.
The artwork instructs the viewer to control their anger. The control of anger - and of all emotions - is the essential first step on the path to equanimity and peace.
In many ways this artwork completes the cycle of works that the artist began with the projection
All Men Are Dangerous
at Tate Britain in 2006. The only way to contain the danger is, first of all, to contain the rage.
In the artist’s view,
Billboard on the Highway: Control Your Anger
is most complete as an artwork or
gesamtzwerk
when seen on a billboard on the highway by someone about to lose their temper.