In seven days God created the heavens and earth. In seven days British Mike Harte and Jamie Shovlin imbibed a different bottle of bourbon and produced a single painting of the word Joy each night.
And then there is of course the drinking. Bourbon Joy toys with romantic associations between radical artistry and inspired inebriation. The idea of the radical artist as a human being struggling equally with art and alcohol - an idea concocted in both respects out of a greater myth of human failure - finds tragicomic obfuscation in the programme of curiously local relations underpinning Harte and Shovlin's engagement with each other in Bourbon Joy.
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