Mois de la Photo a Montreal
I’ve just written a review of Drone: the Automated Image, to appear in Source Magazine (Belfast). The book is a catalogue of the biennial exhibition Mois de la Photo Montreal, 2013. But this is...
Lizard (Roaming Penzance)
Lizard was born at Roaming Penzance in 2013. Roaming is a community interest company that facilitates change, most often change in consciousness. It offers a kind of studio situation, with opportunities to draw, paint,...
Translation as Close Reading
Translators differ from other readers in at least one way that matters, namely that they are obliged to not skip anything (apparently most readers do, regularly). In my first reading(s) of the book Gesten:...
Damaging Marks: Functionaries in Writing Education
Hour after hour, reading the writing of students who struggle (that’s the word everyone uses, and it is heavy with implications), I pass between two distinct forms of perception, two different identities, in a...
Is Digital Photography?
Betulanimbusi, reproduced here, is one image from the elegant new catalogue of Deborah Baker’s photographs, In Paradiso. Her exhibition opened in London on Thursday, September 4, at the William Morris Museum. The catalogue includes my...
Gesture and Necessity
The Extending Gesture colloquium in Edinburgh this past weekend was brilliant! I think I’m gradually forming elements of the papers and discussion into coherent thoughts, usually within the context of a given word or phrase. The...