‘…The outside light penetrates the interior space of the observatory’s dome where the scale of the physical world is brought into realisation through observation of the sun projected onto a sheet of blank A4 paper…As a cloud thwarts Elliott’s study of the sun spot, an element of frustration enters the scenario…The same sheet of paper is then used to illustrate a sense of descending scale, from a halfway cut to the splitting of the atom to the melting and blending of energies which eventually leads to the notion of ‘superstring’; an visible force uniting space and matter…the reduction of matter through the paper cuts falls from physical possibility towards the certainty of impossibility…’

David Osbaldeston, A fine line, Cornerhouse, 2003

Essays:
Francis McKee, Experimental Conversations
Graham Parker, The shaggy dog in the river
Peter Ride, Viewed from the side