[00:01.330]Once thought lost forever,
[00:03.210]it was discovered in America in 1940,
[00:05.480]being used to line a crate of firearms.
[00:18.290]Above the city, all seems wondrous,
[00:21.110]but at street level it was out of control again.
[00:28.840]The different departments of life are jumbled together.
[00:31.880]The hod carrier, the low mechanic, the tapster,
[00:34.380]the publican, the shopkeeper, the petty fogger,
[00:36.920]the citizen and courtier,
[00:38.600]all tread upon the kibes of one another.
[00:41.560]They are seen everywhere rambling,
[00:43.730]riding, rolling, rushing, jostling, mixing, bouncing, cracking,
[00:47.420]and crashing in one vile ferment of stupidity and corruption.
[01:06.700]For the last 200 years,
[01:08.660]many artists have tried to contain London in one vast image or sprawling work.
[01:17.290]I wanted to express my fascination with the city,
[01:22.720]its contradictions, its intricacy,
[01:29.490]its mass of people,
[01:31.740]all living their separate and sometimes communal lives.