The following interview from 2020 was included in Locust #3. Adam Ray Adkins, a.k.a., Dirt: Son of Earth, is a mixed media artist and poet.

In December 2019 the Born Again Labor Museum and Locust Review issued our first “Irrealist Worker Survey” as part of our quixotic attempt to map the gravedigger’s multiverse. A selection of responses from you — our dear comrade readers — along with the survey questions, as printed in Locust #2, is posted here.

I had two epiphanies during my artistic development. One was that our current political/social system was unjust and the second was those systems had always been unjust. I, like so many, had been conditioned to be obedient and not rock the boat. Sadly, it took the upheaval of the perceived status quo to open my eyes. Seeing that the mass media had replaced our subconscious, I wanted to subvert that in my work.

MARK MILLER is the author of The Librarian at the End of the World (Montag Press, 2019). Adam Turl interviewed Mark Miller for Locust Review in early 2020.

WHEN JON Langford was at art school – University of Leeds, the college he refers to below – it was right around the time that TJ Clark showed up. Clark, the Marxist art historian and one-time only British member of the Situationist International, apparently did a lot to pull the university’s art college away from its staid and stale academic approach to art. Langford, in other interviews, has jokingly likened him to a Che Guevara figure for the art department.