If you will forgive a perhaps grandiose notion, the artist has been thinking about Maurice Merleau–Ponty’s account of vision and visibility (that we are looked at, in the spectacle of the world), and Jacques Lacan’s commentary thereon (that the world is not exhibitionistic, it does not provoke our gaze, but when it does, the feeling of strangeness begins). But enough of that!

There are thirteen books in the series limited to an edition of 50 each. Each book, of between 16 and 36 pages, draws on the artist’s collections of postcards, magazines, cuttings, and other printed ephemera, in another attempt to organise, catalogue, and archive. There is little text, apart from the title and usual colophon material. The books are black and white, printed on an ivory 120gsm Munken paper, stapled with a square spine, each: 19cm by 15cm.