Original artwork description:

In Plato's 'Apology,' so the Platonic story goes, a buddy of Socrates called Chaerephon took a day trip to Delphi for a chinwag with the Oracle. What Chaerephon received for his 10 drachmas entrance fee to the mystic tent was not exactly philosophical however. He was told: 'Your mate Socrates is the wisest person in Athens.' Now Plato doesn't let on if Chaerephon was expecting he himself to be called the 'wisest person in Athens' but like a good friend he swallowed his pride and went home and told Socrates what the Oracle said. Socrates had a good chuckle about this but not wanting to contradict the God Apollo, who had a direct Inter-thunderbolt connection to Delphi, he wandered around Athens polling his fellow countrymen about what they actually knew. And it turns out the Greeks in the street (GITS) knew....precisely nothing! With the irony being that THEY THOUGHT THEY DID! Now it could be that, even back then in the 300s BC, Socrates knew that there was so much to know, even his knowledge was limited. So, unlike the self deluding GITS, he was wise enough to say this: 'I know that I know nothing.' This wisdom seem to corroborate what the Oracle said, and, hell, here's another thing I bet Socrates also didn't know that he knew, when he uttered these immortal words: he was making some cracking content for future T-shirts/mousepads/mugs/tea towels/underpants/online quote libraries etc etc.

Limited Edition Prints.
Printed on William Turner Hahnemuhle fine art exhibition quality paper (310 g/m2) using Epson Ultrachrome Pro Pigments, the colours remain true to the original up to 100 years.
The image size is 30×30 cms and there is an additional 3 cms border all the way round the image (ie total size: 36×36 cms). The artist will sign and number the print in this border. The print is unframed.
Prints will leave the artists studio within 7 days, rolled in a heavy tube, accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and sent via track and trace.

Materials used:

Acrylics

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