1917, Marcel Duchamp and co-conspirator in the intentional disruption of the art world’s status quo, Francis Picabia, have returned from a night of mayhem and mild debauchery. Marcel has a persistent thought that art can be anything one declares it to be. With this in mind, he and Francis have been raiding public “fountain houses”, liberating some of the pissoirs therein, wishing to transmute such a banal and utilitarian item to a standing of high artistic intent. Unfortunately, nothing has been anywhere near close to a transcendent realisation of Marcel’s nebulous thoughts of perfection. Worse for wear, surrounded by their less than satisfactory attempts at urinal utopia they eventually drift into the realm of Hypnos … In sleep, Marcel dreams of the perfect pissoir… and the rest is (art) history… Footnote: Marcel never had a drink again… 7200x4114 @300ppi, 24.3MB This image was created using a selection of text to image AI image resources made with Midjourney. Digitally collaged and composited in Adobe Photoshop