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The image shows a slide projection screen. On it is projected an extract from Particle Poems: 3, by Edwin Morgan. It reads 'Three particles lived in mystical union'. The image shows a slide projection screen. On it is projected an image of tessellating spirals in 3D space. The image shows a slide projection screen. On it is projected a photograph of two small Faberge glass ornaments, fashioned to look like arrangements of flowers. The image shows a slide projection screen. On it is projected a photograph of a carved horse ornament. The image shows a slide projection screen. On it is projected an extract from Particle Poems: 3, by Edwin Morgan. It reads 'they made''. The image shows a slide projection screen. On it is projected an extract from Particle Poems: 3, by Edwin Morgan. It reads 'yolk, white, shell'. The image shows a slide projection screen. On it is projected a photograph of a 'Mr Happy' soft toy caught in a wire fence. The image shows a slide projection screen. On it is projected a photograph of a crowded display at a toy shop, with action figures of wrestlers and soldiers hanging from the ceiling.


Particle Poems


Slide projection loop. 2014.

Commissioned for Eastend Transmissions at The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, November 2014.

Adapted by the artist from Particle Poems: 3, by Edwin Morgan:

Three particles lived in mystical union.
They made knife, fork, and spoon,
and earth, sea, and sky.
They made animal, vegetable, and mineral,
and faith, hope, and charity.
They made stop, caution, go,
and hickory, dickory, dock.
They made yolk, white, and shell,
and hook, line, and sinker.
They made pounds, shillings, and pence,
and Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia.
They made Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
and game, set, and match.

A wandering particle captured one of them,
and the two that were left made day and night,
and left and right, and right and wrong,
and black and white, and off and on,
but things were never quite the same,
and two will always yearn for three.
They’re after you, or me.