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Catrin Morgan
THIS WEBSITE IS STILL BEING MADE AND MAY 
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Past
  1. Desiring Machines
  2. Nottingham: Sewers
  3. Nottingham: Walks
  4. Nottingham: Messages
  5. The Butterfly Library
  6. A Book
  7. Phantom Settlements
  8. The Age of Wire and String: Initial Images
  9. The Age of Wire and String: Granta Books
  10. The Age of Wire and String: Terms
  11. The Age of Wire and String: The Animal Husband
  12. The Taxonomy of Deception
  13. Numbers Stations
  14. Noise Stations
  15. Russia House
  16. 1042 Bletchley Park Mansions
  17. We worked in huts that were heavily disguised
  18. Nottingham: Shopping Centres
  19. Studies
  20. Cassiopeia
  21. Maypoles, Osses, Green Men
  22. Cakes and Biscuits
  23. Counting Primes
  24. Parasitic Printing
  25. Studies for Studies
  26. A Study
  27. Jerome’s Study
  28. Chickens
  29. Comfort and Hygiene
  30. Mail Projects

Writing

Design

Themes

  1. Boundaries
  2. Dirt
  3. Layers
  4. Connection
  5. Repetition
  6. Authenticity
Mark

The Age of Wire and String:
Granta Books (2013)





Published by Granta Books. Designed by Valerio di Lucente (Julia).


This is an illustrated version of Ben Marcus’s 1995 novel.

The novel is written in a way that subverts our expectations of familiar patterns of language. The images I created aimed to respond to the tone and construction of the text and to behave in a similar way. This involved a long process of appropriation, collage and manipulation using illustrations from instruction manuals, encyclopedias, scientific textbooks and propaganda material from WWII.

Attempting to illustrate The Age of Wire and String directly, i.e. by illustrating very faithfully the images suggested by the text, would close it down. It was important that the images didn’t take imaginative space away from new readers of the novel; they operate alongside the text rather than responding to it directly. Stylistic changes were used to reflect tonal changes in the writing.

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