{"id":461,"date":"2022-12-01T21:35:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T01:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/?p=461"},"modified":"2022-12-02T10:39:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:39:51","slug":"our-story-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/2022\/12\/01\/our-story-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Our story so far…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chris Barker’ salute to those who died in 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sydney Poitier! Christine McVie!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mikhail Gorbachev! Taylor Hawkins!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Chris Barker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You know the first four names: They’re among the famous folk who died in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Barker, thankfully, is still among the living. An award-winning artist and designer, he has created an annual visual salute to the dead since 2016, using The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper cover as his framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is Barker’s first release for 2022. If it’s anything like the previous years, he’ll be creating revisions of it for the next 31 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Caan. Louise Fletcher.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Lansbury! Howard Hesseman!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For each demise, he has to find the most appropriate image for the person – in character? young? old? \u2013 then devise a way to fit it in. Then, someone else passes away and Barker needs to figure out how to present him\/her .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(In Barker’s first year of doing this, Carrie Fisher died on Dec. 27. Her mom Debbie Reynolds died the very next day. Both are included in the 2016 presentation, in a totally appropriate way).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, 2022: Queen Elizabeth! Nichelle Nichols! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It is an absolute gut-wrencher<\/a> this year,” Barker said on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take some time with this. Enlarge it. Scroll around. See how many people you recognize right off. Likely you’ll know the role even if you can’t remember the name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris has posted a guide to the 151 people and topics (you’ll definitely<\/em> need to enlarge this one): <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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#sgtpepper2022<\/a> The key: pic.twitter.com\/GQxSSFqfrL<\/a><\/p>— christhebarker (@christhebarker) December 2, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>