Flagellum
"The flagellum refers to the constant awareness of an inadequacy, I’m doing what I can but look at what I am having to live up to. Of course in religion the Flagellum scourges the flesh and purifies the soul but actually in this case it’s a way of saying, look at all this that has gone before, look how beautiful it is, how can any of us ever better any of that?"
Alan Smith, from interview with Derek Guthrie
Alan Smith, from interview with Derek Guthrie