The Work

Film, photographs and events. Some arguments only land when you can see the thing being argued about.

Documentary

This is What Collateral Damage Looks Like

A documentary on DVD about the human cost of war, and about the phrase used to file that cost away.

United States

A large crowd filling the street outside the Bank of England, with a rainbow overhead

Photographic record

Crowd Outside the Bank of England

A photographic record of the street outside the Bank of England, filled end to end, with a rainbow across it.

London, England

2009

Earth photographed from space, half in daylight and half in darkness

Event

A Happening in Sacramento

Music, word and visual work staged together as one event, rather than as three things sharing a night.

Sacramento, California

The gold-anodised Pioneer plaque mounted on the spacecraft antenna support struts

Futurism

The Pioneer Plaques

The first human-built objects to leave our solar system carried a message. It is worth asking what it says about us.

Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11

1972 and 1973

Words worth keeping

The voices this work keeps returning to, quoted as they said it.

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil rights leader

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil rights leader

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil rights leader

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil rights leader

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”

John F. Kennedy

35th President of the United States

“I’m an idealist without illusions.”

John F. Kennedy

35th President of the United States

“Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.”

Robert F. Kennedy

United States Senator

“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”

Robert F. Kennedy

United States Senator

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”

The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson, 1776

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