ABSTRACT
Commemorations of World War I in the UK coincided with Brexit, an attempt to opt-out of the world-making project of supra-national organisation. We Are Making a New World (1918), a painting of the front by Paul Nash, is often used to celebrate the end of the war and the return to Blighty by British servicemen. This contribution reads the work differently, suggesting that it represents a world in which a return to normal is impossible and everyone, like it or not, is implicated in world-making.
