On losing his job, Philip Brannigan finds
himself unable to return home to face the family with his
news. His entire material world is about to collapse. In
his confused state, and challenged by an elderly stranger,
he adopts a religious sandwich board found in the park
where he has spent the night.
And so begins his journey across the UK.
What at first seems like the aimless wandering of a
confused man, gradually turns into a specific march towards
Brannigan's childhood home. It is a journey carried out on
foot over a period of five or six days and one that takes
him from the west of England to the east coast. On this
journey, Brannigan experiences a number of encounters which
are fuelled by the message on his sandwich board: "The Meek
Shall Inherit The Earth". These are experiences that range
from the sublime to the brutal, the mundane to the
revelatory. They are experiences and encounters that reveal
a changing external social landscape, as well as an
evolving inner spiritual world.
Arriving on the east coast, Brannigan is faced with the
reality that there is no home to go back to, no past in
which to take shelter, and in his deepest moment of despair
he discovers, through his interaction with the sea that
destroyed his childhood home, a new strength and a new way
of understanding his life.
This is an experiential story: we are invited to immerse
ourselves in the detail of Brannigan’s experience and
to see the imagery of the everyday contemporary world in a
mythological and mystical light.
See Poster.
