THE IMAGE ROOM

Images. Residues of light and time along the Silver Coast. The ideas that hung around long enough to take form.

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Flying White

Chinese calligraphy has a delightful name for the happy accident. When the brush moves fast, the ink breaks and white paper flashes through the stroke. Calligraphers call it feibai, flying white, and they have prized it for two thousand years.

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The Art of Failing to Copy

Say the word copying to a room full of photographers and watch everyone suddenly become very interested in their shoes. On the deliberate kind of copying, the kind that takes time.

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The Silence Before the Song

What to do with loss? On moving to Portugal, the allure of fado and the line between drawing on a culture and decorating with it.

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50 Shades

Fifty grey fragments lifted from the Silver Coast – sea, sand, cloud, foam, the occasional sulky bit of almost-blue

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Estrago

A treehouse that kept its roof, a house that didn't, and a box of spoiled paper that is evolving daily. Estrago, at Studio Atlantic.