'The man riding the pig' is a product of an experimental collaboration between myself & a poet friend, Matthew Gregory. It is the third individuality study from my degree project and the end result is the outcome of a chinese whispers approach to interpreting information.

Eight individuals were given a set of questions about their age, class, profession, family, religion etc and were asked to answer anonymously or by abbreviation. These answers were passed onto Matthew, who used the information to create a description of the individual, by translating the data into a poem inspired by the individual. In some cases these poems were shown to the person, who enjoyed or were unsettled by the strange connection between themselves and this interpretation of them by another.

I produced this book by hand; it is manually screen-printed using metallised inks, with french-folded pages and varying paper stocks. The illustrations are inspired by medical slides of images of the dissected brain - the neocortex, the part which contains all conscious thought and idea formation within the brain.