Texts

Creative accounting

There are moments when we realise that everything hangs on the outcome – when Life is in the balance or straw is being laid on the camel’s back. Were it not for A, B would not have happened.

The city trembles

… and there beyond, another hundred miles away in some unseen town, the lights are already lit and night has crept in once more. And there will be a man in a truck and lights on in open windows …

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…

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.