Whilst these records were being conceived rehearsed recorded and produced Thom Yorke and
Stanley Donwood made hundreds of images. These ranged from obsessive insomniac scrawls in biro
to six-foot-square painted canvases from scissors-and-glue collages to immense digital
landscapes. They utilised every medium they could find from sticks and knives to the emerging
digital technologies. The work chronicles their obsessions at the time: minotaurs genocide
maps globalisation monsters pylons dams volcanoes locusts lightning helicopters
Hiroshima show homes and ring roads. What emerges is a deeply strange portrait of the years at
the commencement of this century. A time that seems an age ago - but so much remains the same.
