… was the pseudonym used by Marc Burgess when I happened to stumble across his musical project on Myspace about 2 or 3 years ago (yes, myspace, remember that? No? I didn’t think so.) Whilst I’ve never been known to keep track of things I find on the internet (as well you know; I can’t keep track of myself on the internet) – this was one stumble I oddly enough remembered when he emailed me a few months ago to ask about booking me for some of his photographic work.

A random coincidence – if indeed you believe in random coincidences. I for one don’t but then I strongly suspect that this might have something to do with the recent TV adaptation of ‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’ by the enduringly wonderful Douglas Adams. Devotee as I am, there was much excited jumping and making of the noise ‘eeee’ when I heard about this.

While Dirk Gently may have converted me to the notion of the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, it has done nothing whatsoever to improve my understanding of, or ability to retain, ‘the point’… which I shall now return to.

These are some of the lovely natural light shots that Marc took in September in his semi-renovated house in Oxford: