Daily journal November 4, 2000, The Royal Academy of Art in London, Apocalypse art Show.

Another day in central London where prices for food and beverages are so high. Coffee or tea is $3.00 and parking is impossible. Beauty and Horror in contemporary art. To pay the $10 admission to see this awful work of 16 modern Artist is a challenge to the soul. One would not connect the title of this show to the work itself not at all to the Bible from seeing it. This is the modern-day artist version of apocalypse (Revelation) and you would not believe how they interpreted it. When you go in there is a fallen Pope, with a staff in hand showing a little Jesus swinging, hit by a meteorite and glass over the floor.

This Catholic artist Maurizio Cattelan from New York begins the show. Another room has empty picture frames hanging on the wall. The show concludes with a movie of nude and raw bloody sex with a man and woman floating in space and fighting. Body parts of both male and female were highlighted by the camera. Large numbers of young people were seeing the show. I believe this country'England'has drifted to a new low. The artist here are very compatible following a similar course going and coming straight out of hell but to read their literature promoting the show, one would never know that such gross scenes as this would be included. This is the work of Satan in mind and in body. I can understand why they would not want my art in this show and I would not want my art in this show. Language of graceful comments in the show's brochure 'apocalypse' describe Jake and Dinos who live in London as "famous or infamous, for the disturbing nature of their work, the Chapmans have had enough of their art being seen as one dimensional, shock is an essential part of their work, but it is not their only concern. They use it for the disorientation and confusion it produces. They aim to establish a playing field on which they can then move the goalposts as they see fit. They are interested in the idea that outrage is an essential part of the avant-garde"..."Hell is a bloodbath-a gargantuan, monumental reminder of the horrors of the past century". Tim Noble and Sue Webster in their display of rubbish is part of the Show, "collected within spitting distance of their studio, is then transformed into work of incredible detail and dexterity, the undesirables".

There was a huge display of soldiers and war with thousands of figures and decapitations. This may be the most decent part of the show, the Holocaust is certainly well represented in this space and rightly so. The description may be over my head and in terms I cannot relate to, from the text it is anyone's guess as to who belongs to what. The work of Chris Cunningham of London, "Pop Promos,... Flex is a deliberately aggressive piece of film making, his aim is to attack the senses with a physical intensity using film and music,flex inspiration comes partly from super hero cartoon imagery,particularly the idealised bodys with their surreal muscles. Marco Mori's dream temple is a celebration of spirituality and consumerism expressed through sumptuous scale, extraordinary peace and tranquility. These elements have always run through Mori's work constantly setting out to isolate an idea of the sacred, she is completely focused on creating a world where the spirituality of the East and the consumerism of the West are not jaxtaposed but synthesised technology has a spirit of wonder that embodies this synthesis, the transformation of the temple glass from complete transparency to milky opacity shows how Mari uses high technology to resolve conflicts between surface in content". The acceptance of world religion of the modern art of worship is here. The show continuous with displays of huge photographs and illustrations of light which is common in most modern art today. I describe this as it is necessary to know how the world pictures prophecy and the degree of understanding.

May God help us to know the truth and trust in His Holy Word, look for His coming.