Weak Messages Create Bad Situations

“David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lives”– Dave Eggers

“With a casual gesture Shrigley points to that hideous shape whose name I’ve never known – and then he names it. And the name is profoundly, embarrassingly familiar. I’m laughing while frantically searching for a pen, so desperate to capture the feeling he has unearthed in me.”– Miranda July

Artist David Shrigley, author of What the Hell Are You Doing?, presents his subversive and surreal take on the confusing messages that inundate our daily lives.

“Lots of individuals in society today are feeble-minded. They don’t know what the HELL is going on. Unfortunately many of these people are responsible for running THE COUNTRY. Their ideas are MEANINGLESS, illustrated using RUBBISH imagery (often made by a computer). The stupid words they write are always in BAD FONTS. Yet still people HEED this nonsense. Maybe YOU are one of these people? It’s alright. I am here to HELP you. I have a FULLY-COMPOSED WORLD VIEW. I have STRONG opinions about EVERYTHING. And my ideas are HAND-ILLUSTRATED and use REAL HANDWRITING that you can trust. I know exactly what’s going on and am WILLING to share my thoughts with you. If you LISTEN to what I say then things will quickly improve.”