Glueglyphs 2011 - 2021

PHOTOS ALAN KNOWLES REFLECTIONS GREG O'BRIEN AFTERWORD ROBERT MACFARLANE Quotes from Greg O'Brien: "During the 2020 Covid lock-down, Alan Knowles’s photographs strike a particular nerve, with their hints of ghost-narratives. In this time of business closures, deserted streets and abandoned cityscapes, they suggest narratives of power and powerlessness. "Maybe we are witnessing the replacement of bureaucratese with an unbridled, Dadaist sign-language? "The crisp articulation of parking-related or business signage is here replaced by arcane, obtuse pictogram or hieroglyph." Quote from Robert Macfarlane: "A trace fossil is a bracing of space in a vanished body, in which absence serves as sign." FOR THE FULL STORY ORDER YOUR COPY 36pp, 34 photographs, $30 plus postage, edition 80 from Wai-te-ata Press, Victoria University of Wellington wtapress@vuw.ac.nz or via the contact page below