(using a plaster of Paris model hand by Julian Collyer)

Provenance: Adrian Lines Archive

Julian says: "I met Adrian in 1984. He took over my hologram studio that I built at The London College of Printing in 1979, ( now called The London College of Communication). It was there that he produced Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man. I commissioned (he actually only charged me for the plates) Adrian to record a hologram in 1984 for Philips Small Appliances. I made the cast and background, the cast is of my hand moulded in alginate and plaster of Paris. I didn’t realise that he (later) used the cast of my hand to make this hologram. Looking at the hologram I can see that he has removed the shaver, wrapped wire around the hand and replaced the background with the valve photo/hologram. It was made in his Borough Market studio on his sand table."