The title of the piece Contract comes from the symbolism of the knot in various cultures/contexts. For instance: a knot as a contract – the slang for marriage is tying the knot. A memory aid was a knot in a handkerchief, then notebooks, then photo albums. Its function is to re-connect one to the past or to record events.

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The photographs are from a stretch of canal, including of a house on the canal side where I had lived for a significant period of my life.

This is a three dimensional photo album. Not a conventional one that you can pick up easily or leave on a table and leaf through like a book, but one that requires you to handle closely and carefully. Closely because the photographic images are quite small and lead you on a journey, and carefully because they are all over a weighty ceramic object.