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‘Every set of phenomena, whether cultural totality or sequence of events, has to be fragmented, disjointed, so that it can be sent down the circuits; every kind of language has to be resolved into a binary formulation so that it can…

“No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.” Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time. The above quote is…

A few weeks ago, rumbling around in the garage, I came across a poster of the famous Japanese woodblock print (The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai) that was given to me as a present by my sister and brother-in-law when they returned from…

More from the Art Encounters series can be found here. Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend…

Note: This piece contains spoilers for Dunkirk It’s early August. I’m in the middle of trying to finish a load of writing projects, one of which is a book on film. I need a break, just to remind myself of why I’m doing what I do. I see…

Back in May of this year I wrote an Art Encounters article called The Rescue Act. It was about the events that led to my adopting a border collie called Oscar. The title was a bit tongue-in-cheek, like the title of an action movie and I was…

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” - Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation I’m a little confused. The main reason, and probably the one which all others feed into, is to do…

I flew into Shannon airport from Malaga with the family in tow. As the cool lovable air brushed in from outside, and I knew I had survived the intense heat of the Costa del Sol. As I came through that ‘nothing to declare’ sign I bumped into…

O’ sacred place of Córdoba, You exist because of Ishq, Ishq that’s wholly eternal, Which does not come and go, Muhammed Iqbal - The Mosque of Córdoba. I'm moving through the dark, Of a long black night, Just moving with the moon,…

For the first part of this Art Encounters, click here. 'Imagine bumping into yourself when you were twenty years younger?' You’re twenty-three years old, looking at Francis Bacon’s Lying Figure (1966) in the Reina Sofia Gallery…