Fictions are remembered, too, and they are not stored any differently in the mind from other experiences. They are experience. Siri Hustvedt, The Real Story Some of the most fantastic fictions can be found in Greek myth; stories full of wonder and bloodlust and love and scorn. Births from fertile rain and creatures born with […]
“The creative encounter with the image happens through interpretation. Much of the time that process is tacit, and often it is banal. Some of the time, however, the image becomes a place for challenging or enhancing one’s experience of the world. Whether eliciting revulsion or awe, or revealing the familiar as strange, or fragmenting what […]
“Today the site has been substituted for extension which itself had replaced emplacement” Michel Foucault Between the middle ages and the present day, the philosopher Michel Foucault suggests, a change has taken place in the way that we understand and embody space. Instead of the once hierarchical mediaeval notion of space, (where some spaces were […]
I grew up in a large town, (though when I say ‘in’ I really should say ‘just outside of’) a fifteen minute drive would leave me in its then tumbling-down centre. On that short journey I’d pass through four other districts, (the town being made up of twenty) each one having its own idiosyncrasies. I […]
I had wanted to write about Folly, the debut book by Jamie Murray, since I first quickly flipped through its pages. Jamie showed me one of his advance copies as he was hand printing the special edition prints in the darkroom. I had many questions. Some I asked – what were the motives behind the […]
When I hid as a child in a game of ‘hide-and-seek’, I often hid my eyes, thinking this act would cloak me from the vision of others. As I’ve gone through my life, I’ve revisited this moment on countless occasions, wondering if anything is lost when you stop looking. Does everything around you cease to […]