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A hyperrealistic landscape showing a weathered marble statue of a British colonial officer wearing a pith helmet, partially buried in golden sand. Behind him, symbolic regions unfold: a Middle Eastern desert with a barbed wire fence and a floating historical document; a crumbling West African coastline with ruins and ghostly figures near ancient ships; and modern cities with colonial architecture under a dramatic sepia sky. Scattered objects like a leather football, passports, gavels, and crates reflect colonial legacies.

The Empire That Never Left

Sir Richard Turnbull, the last British Governor of Aden, once quipped: “When the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only two monuments: one was the game of Association Football, the other was the expression ‘Fuck Off’.” It’s an irresistibly sharp line — a comic dismissal of imperial ...