Texts

Unease

Unease is a short book, produced for an exhibition at the gallery in Shoreditch which Mark Hix used to own. He had a restaurant there for a while.

Truth and Beauty

Nelson’s Elixirs of Truth and Beauty consists of a pair of black boxes each containing a small phial of liquid prepared from dust swept from the floor of Mike Nelson’s artwork The Imposter…

On Classifications

Extraordinary revelations and fragile speculations require a language of Wonder that is unfamiliar in the modern laboratory. We have become a measuring species…

The evolution of culture

My father’s father did not understand why the ground receded as he lowered his biplane from the clouds. He reached out of the cockpit and felt the corn swishing against his fingers but still he did not land…