― Harold Pinter, No Man's Land
THE KEEPERS OF NO MAN'S LAND
acrylic on canvas - 8x10 inches - 1976
a early work from the seventies, painted in Lethbridge, Alberta
Decades ago, in the Seventies, I supplied a lot of works to a gallery in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. My larger canvases they bought outright (I used to have a contract with them), but smaller works like this I bartered for frames.
What exactly was on my mind in those days I don't know, but I voraciously read Fantasy, Science Fiction and related literature. I am quoting Harold Pinter because I was familiar with his work already then.
According to Alasdair Pinkerton, an expert in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, the term is first mentioned in Domesday Book (1086), to describe parcels of land that were just beyond the London city walls.
The same term was later used as the name for the piece of land outside the north wall of London that was assigned as the place of execution.
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