Remember the character 'Q'? He was in Star Trek. Earlier was Ian Fleming's fictional character in the James Bond films - Q - stands for Quartermaster. Like M, it is a job title. M doesn't stand for anything. Q was played by Desmond Llewelyn, and there are a number of commercials that feature some variation on the character 'Q'.
Jump now to recent past, to October 2017, when Q emerged on the internet message board 4chan with a post asserting that Hillary Clinton's arrest was imminent. There were more than 4,000 posts from Q, who claimed to be a government insider. Reminiscent of Ian Fleming spy novels, Q used a 'trip code' that allowed followers to distinguish his posts from those of other anonymous users - those anonymous others were known as 'anons'.
And only 3 years later, here we are: QAnon is now a major media 'ecosystem'. Our public attention was drawn to it just last month when the #SaveTheChildren campaign got hijacked into the QAnon 'narrative'.
The predictions for the future are in the News headlines this weekend says: "QAnon began in the internet's darkest corners. Now it's set to enter Congress."
I have looked through images of QAnon supporters - and see a consistent expression on the faces. There are big smirks and big smiles that remind me of high school rebels with their accompanying obnoxious and offensive behaviour and a sense of being superior. There's a sense of "Just try to stop me". And what should they be stopped from? According to the FBI, it is domestic terror and violence in the making.
On the bright side of summer, here's a recent print I created. I have figured out how to sample my images and use sections as patterns - they fill the centres of the circle-dots and the background vertical stripes.
