The Way Things Can Happen

Essex Flowers is pleased to present Erin Johnson’s solo exhibition The Way Things Can Happen which revisits The Day After (1983), the landmark made-for-television film depicting a nuclear attack on Kansas. Produced at the height of the Cold War, The Day After was filmed on location in Lawrence, Kansas, with a cast of more than 5,000 local residents. Blurring the distinction between everyday life and cinematic fiction, the film achieved the urgency and scale of live coverage of a national catast…