Peter and Alex Win in the End
Series, 13 x 19 inches
Recordings from Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, collograph
2019
Title List:
1. “Peter” by the strings.
2. The bird will be played by the flute. (Like this.)
3. This is the sound of the title sequence to Stanley Kubrick’s The Clockwork Orange.
4. “Soon it was trees and dark my brothers, with real country dark.”
Alex and his gang speed away in a Durango 95.
5. Doorbell.
Man: “Who on earth could that be?”
Doorbell, doorbell.
Woman: “I’ll go and see.”
6. “The Wolf” by the French horns.
7. Alex singing “Singing in the Rain” as he destroys a house, attacks an old man, and prepares to rape a woman.
8. Just then grandfather came out.
He was angry because Peter had gone in the meadow.
"It is a dangerous place. If a wolf should come out of the forest,
then what would you do?"
9. “Choice. The boy has no real choice, has he? Self-interest. The fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement.”
10. “The new view is to say “no.” The new view is that we turn the bad into good, all of which seems to me to be grossly unjust, eh?
“Sir…”
“Shut your filthy hole you scum.”
“You are to be reformed.”
11. “It is at this stage we introduce the subject himself. He is, as you will perceive, fit and well-nourished. He comes straight from a night’s sleep and a good breakfast. Undrugged, unhypnotized. Tomorrow we send him out with confidence into the world again. As decent a lad as you would meet on a May morning.”
12. The blast of the hunter’s shotguns played by the kettle drums.
13. A crowd applauding a naked woman who stands still.
14. “She came towards me, with the light like it was the light light of heavenly grace. And the first thing that flashed into me gulliver was that I’d like to have her right down there on the floor with the old in-out. Real savage. But quick as a shot came the sickness, like a detective that had been watching around the corner, and now followed to make his arrest.”
15. Alex singing “Singing in the Rain” as a way of torturing the old man.
16. “So now you have the same reaction to music as you do to sex and violence?”
“No you see it’s not all music, it’s just the 9th.”
“You mean Beethoven’s 9th Symphony?”
“That’s right. I can’t listen to the 9th anymore at all.”
17. Meanwhile, Peter made a lasso and carefully letting it down and down and down,
caught the wolf by the tail and pulled with all his might.
18. “I woke up, with pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend Ludwig van, and the dreaded 9th Symphony.”
19. Now just imagine, just imagine the triumphant procession.
Peter at the head.
After him the hunters leading the wolf.
And winding up the whole procession
grandfather and the cat.
20. “Singing in the Rain” from the MGM Picture, performed by Gene Kelly.