THE EIGHTH DAY.

Genesis says the world was made in seven days and then God rested. THE EIGHTH DAY reads that as the work being left unfinished — and on the eighth day, we picked up the tools ourselves.

The iconic hand of Adam reaches out, not toward God, but toward an almost-empty pill bottle. The vessel wears a hauntingly simple smiley face. It is the modern relic: the necessity of medicine to achieve the perfection promised by creation. The halo behind the image is engraved directly into the backboard, carved out to make room for what came after.

This one is personal. Blackwell was diagnosed with cancer and then, later, ADHD. Both changed what he understood about how his mind and body had always worked. The idea that a perfect design might still need the intervention of the people living inside it. If the design were complete, the bottle would not be required.

Reinforced architectural card. Hand-cut collage, aerosol, industrial adhesive. The regression halo is engraved into the backboard substrate — not applied on top of it. Architectural float-mount, signed and dated verso.

Produced in the Manchester studio, 2023. Drawn directly from the artist's experience of cancer diagnosis and recovery, and the clarity that followed an ADHD diagnosis. One exists. Provenance documented from point of acquisition.