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This work arose out of Auguries of Innocence. William Blake envisioned a world where the infinite could be seen in the ordinary. This world was eternal and regenerative. Blake’s In nocence has given way to the unquiet, where the future feels lost, quivering between decay and disappearance. My vandalised Blakean verse: “To see a world in a grain of plastic, and a heaven in a wild inferno, hold smartphone in the palm of your hand, and exit in an hour” marks this shift: a world of endless returns at a misstep with a synthetic present exhausted by technology and crises. Show more