Divine State by Thomas Swinburn tops Finished with an embossed logo

Finished with an embossed logo

and neglected museum treasures

digitally recontextualised and printed onto highly durable sport fabric

5oz rigid denim

Pleats at front and back

Divine State by Thomas Swinburn tops Finished with an embossed logoSet in the Caucasus mountains, Divine State is a series of photographs that examine our complex relationship with mortality. For humans who cannot bear to follow natural order, the social cultural hero narratives of legacy, religious piety and memorial promise different forms of eternity. Establishing denial towards death becomes critical to well being in a functioning society. Symbolically, to defy death is to live forever, in a divine, god like