
All the Octopi
These visual poems, which sit on a line between facts and aesthetics, celebrate octopuses. The text, consisting of a list of the common names of all octopi, is repeated and fractured and then images and colours are layered on. The process is more intuitive than deliberate, with accidents and random configurations contributing to the creative process.
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Fungi
These visual poems sit on a line between facts and aesthetics. Factual statements about the natural world, in this case about a type of fungi, are cut up randomly, and the resultant prose mixed with photographic images.
The never-ending quest…
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