Bodies and processes involved in the experimentation with matter and making are (re)presented on leather banderoles in a non-linear manner. These fragmented procedures are connected to the invention and origin of a fictional language that derives from the convergence of body and clay.

Of particular images negotiates the morality of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century emblems and their tripartite structure (image-motto-epigram) in which a pictorial enigma, whose relation to a sententious motto commonly registered on a banderole within the image, is resolved by an accompanying text or an epigram. The dual voice of alchemical writings, where rational and fictional language intertwine, informs a series of mottoes printed on paper that the viewers can take.

These site-responsive works act as self-referential indications of everything physical outside of themselves, hovering between autonomy and dependence, perhaps suggestive of ways to perceive (physical) reality.

Of particular images was accompanied by the curation of the public display at Special Collections, Glasgow University Library, a talk by Professor Laurence Grove and Dr Luis Gomes and a three-day workshop for children.