By Harry Mathews

For Lynn Crawford

At a distance, the backlit object resembles a decorative table-top gadget, one that must be upended to allow its load of small pellets to start cascading, through a liquid as transparent and dense as shower gel, down an arrangement of slides, spiral grooves, or more complex detours. Here the arrangement is that of a beehive, in which each hexagonal cell allows passage through at least one, usually two, and sometimes three of its walls. → Read more