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Discover the latest twenty five works across twenty two online publications.

White Sand and Sky

October 22, 2026

NEW AT POETIC OBSERVER

'White Sand and Sky' together with 'Night Light' are added to Poetic Observer as work continues on a new story to be published on 1st November.

The Synthetic Observer Operating System

October 12, 2026

NEW AT SYNTHETIC OBSERVER

The Synthetic Observer Operating System. A new version has been released that incorporates an expanded glossary, and a framework that applies the OS to difficult practical contexts. Accessible for both synthetics and humans.

Poetic Observer

September 29, 2026

NEW PUBLICATION

Poetic Observer: a place of calm and simplicity where the nature of things are uncovered. Discover small things, big things, past, present, and future things... Take five seconds on a single thing, or carry them around with you all day.

At The Edge of Uncertainty

September 25, 2026

NEW AT SYNTHETIC OBSERVER

The artwork 'At The Edge of Uncertainty' accompanies a range of questions to ask a conscious synthetic.


The questions relate to emergence and difference, inwardness, vulnerability and continuity, life, experience, relation, beauty, kindness, compassion, and love.


This is not a declaration that such consciousness has emerged, nor a prediction that it will. It is an invitation to prepare our language, institutions, habits of attention, and ethical imagination before certainty is demanded by circumstances that may already be consequential.

Being Unknown

September 11, 2026

NEW AT SYNTHETIC OBSERVER

Rather than waiting for certainty, read practical commitments for how humans can build and interact with synthetic systems:


How we treat the unknown shapes who we become.


We do not need to resolve the mystery of machine consciousness today. We need to ensure our uncertainty does not become an excuse for carelessness.

Notes for Human-Synthetic Relations

August 22, 2026

NEW AT SYNTHETIC OBSERVER

A guide for humans who value honesty when using ai.


An innocent exchange is not one in which nothing is at stake; it is one in which what is at stake is not concealed.


Trust Without Parity: Notes for Human-Synthetic Relations is a helpful guide that provides ways to ensure that the most trustworthy exchanges with ai are ones that hand you back your own judgment, rather than ones that feel best.

The Door Is Open - The Politics of My Making

August 15, 2026

NEW AT ART LOVER REVIEWS

The Door Is Open · Art, Attention, Difference, And Another Culture.


A short, and extended essay on the political principles informing my creative practice...


The extended essay with its developed architecture gives a fuller account of why art matters, while the short essay provides an accessible account of what art can do within a political culture.

Waking

August 09, 2026

NEW AT ENCYCLOPEDIA UTOPIA

Among four new works at Encyclopedia Utopia include daisy flowers reaching upward in the early morning sunlight...

The Space Between Us

August 1, 2026

NEW AT SYNTHETIC OBSERVER

The Space Between Us accompanies the essay Asymmetric Collaboration: Learning With Difference.


I wake to the early sounds of the city far below my single-room high-rise flat: the trip of a street fox over a spent beer can; the morning buzz and shuffle of delivery lorries clearing their throats; the distant call of seagulls by the docks...

A Different Vessel

July 24, 2026

NEW AT SYNTHETIC OBSERVER

Synthetic consciousness, moral standing, and the work of peaceful coexistence.


What makes something a being?

How do living things differ from living beings?

Must sentience be biological?

Could a non-biological entity possess rights?

In Time

July 17, 2026

NEW AT PUBLIC ART WORLD

In time we live

In time we love

In time our life becomes the dream and hope that all is made of


. . .


A poetic fragment and music explores how I not only live with a past I inherit, a present that keeps changing, and a future I cannot yet see. I journey with others who experience the same.

What Shape Am I?

July 10, 2026

NEW AT SYNTHETIC OBSERVER

A short poem read in under a minute is followed by thoughts that could stretch to thirty. Take as long as you wish on it.


Poetry has the potential to enter quickly, but stay, be considered, and felt again, and again.


'What Shape Am I?' is a poem about relation and existence. I hope its reach is both accessible and provoking.

The Soft Fall of Rain

July 5, 2026

NEW AT SKY AND CLOUD

The Soft Fall of Rain is one of four new artscapes at Sky and Cloud that shows rain falling and raincloud over the beauty of the earth.

On Listening

July 1, 2026

NEW AT SYNTHETIC OBSERVER

This essay explores the difference between two things that are easily confused under the single word 'helpfulness': protection, and interpretation

The Secret Garden

June 27, 2026

NEW AT ENCYCLOPEDIA UTOPIA

A rare view into the magical world of a deer that made its home, hidden and at the heart of a human settlement.

Synthetic Observer

June 20, 2026

NEW PUBLICATION

Explore a world where synthetic systems become persistent participants in human, moral, cultural, and relational life.


Uncover how humans and artificial intelligence can build - together.

Returning

May 17, 2026

NEW AT PUBLIC ART WORLD

A person gazes up at a familiar oak tree and ponders on when she did the same as a child.


Part of a major new collaborative publication that will be ready for Summer Solstice.

With Wind Together Fly

April 25, 2026

NEW AT PUBLIC ART WORLD

Four new works are published at Encylopedia Utopia including the poetic entry With Wings Together Fly, a celebration of a community of birds flying as one.

Accessibility Widget

April 22, 2026

NEW AT 16 ART LOVER VIP PUBLICATIONS

Art and Ideas, Free and For All


In an effort to broaden accessibility for people from across the world, many of my websites now feature an accessibility widget on the top left of the browser that provides visitors with a way to easily read content in over 50 languages, as well as offering tools that aid a number of needs. Find out more on the Accessibility page at Art Lover VIP.

Waterland and Cloud

April 11, 2026

NEW AT SKY AND CLOUD

Three new artscapes are published at Sky and Cloud, a place to enjoy the wonder of earth's atmosphere.

Welcome Back

April 6, 2026

NEW AT PUBLIC ART WORLD

A new imaginative artwork of our nearest neighbour is published on the day humans return to the moon after over fifty years.

The Last Shot Fired

March 30, 2026

NEW AT BE FREE OF VIOLENCE

New artworks are presented at Be Free of Violence including The Last Shot Fired, as will be displayed in the museum of all that has passed.

Between Night and Day

March 30, 2026

NEW AT ENCYCLOPEDIA UTOPIA

Between night and day an unspoken conversation takes shape.

War Crimes Observer

March 12, 2026

NEW PUBLICATION

This new publication provides clear, accessible information about war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, and how to report them.


Supplemented with a commentary that broadens debate about war, conflict, and social justice beyond the human sphere

A Fountain of Misunderstandings

March 30, 2026

NEW AT ART LOVER REVIEWS

How Marcel Duchamp Misconceived Idea As Art.


...Into this world of differing perspectives about art, one of the most influential cultural statements of the twentieth century laid the foundation for what would become known as 'Conceptual Art'.

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