A Penny Spinning

In 2013 I started compiling a body of research around art and writing and where they meet. I gave this growing pile of pages the title ‘A Penny Spinning’ because, much like a page of text, a penny at rest appears flat—barely two dimensional. And yet a penny, much like a page, reveals its endless dimensions once set in whirring motion.

Over the years, I shared this material through lectures and workshops, but most of the essays (to employ a very loose definition of the term) felt too opaque, crude or raw to share with a wider audience. Now, I think whatever appeal they might have lies in this ‘rawness’ and that this approach is best suited to many of the artists and writers I’ve felt compelled to write about.