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The Art of Who We Are

Dinner Party

Tender Piglets

Automaton

The Loopholes

Cool

under the boards

Quirky Pig

The Soft Machine

#1205

Swimming as Nature Intended

Robot

Looking Through The Windows

Ode to My Joints

Interiors

Swansong in the Mainframe

Under Cover

I am the emperor of the sea and you are simply a pig

Courting Nothingness

Pinocchio

Liberated

Spem in alium nunquam habui

The one that got away

Nerves and Eyes

The Background Hum

The Body

When Pigs Fly

Interface

The Shifting Diagonal

The Pig Heart

The Business Trip

Inner Struggle

Machine learning

A refreshing bath

Frankie’s Creation

The Rules of the Game

The escape of Peppa Pig

The Whole Hog

Four Limeraiku for a Humanoid

Wrecked

Inner Robot

To Those Proud Mums and Those Kids of Theirs

Cyborg romantics

BRING HOME THE BACON

The Cheese of Insight

ICE

Forget the Face

Pigs fly

Ultimate Scarecrow

the quickening tide

pennies from heaven

Akin

NOT QUITE RIGHT

The Pigs Parts 1 – 5

Spirit Guide of Childhood

The Metal Mannequin

July twenty-fifth, ninety ninety-six

Pigs in Paradise

Production or Purpose?

Hog Heaven

Tattoo Me

Pigture Postcard

Lifeless

After the Dream

Appendix: Troubleshooting

Just One of Them

Behind The Mask

Between two waters

Line Ad

Sea

AI

WHEN PIGS CAN’T FLY, THEY SWIM

Who is Afraid of AI?

Pig Oddity

From Robots Through To Soda Cans

Social Mobility for the Dead

Porkupine

Memom

Come on in the water’s fine

Zipping and Unzipping

A Poor Substitute

Enlivens

The Magnetic Ms. Stella

NUDE DESCENDING SURF

MY BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP

The Sailor’s Pet or The Pig that Could not Swim

Red Light

Centaur maker

Survival

Genesis II: the fair fight

AI wishes to be I

Lady of the Wayside

Vulnerabilities

Blind Date

Winter

Routine Maintenance

Over Time

The stranger speech

Machine: A Ghazal

Some Kind of Camouflage

International Harvester

My Robot

The common denominator

DISMANTLING YOU, MY YOUTH

Herself Only

Electric Shock

At the cemetery

Behind the Eyes

Monsters on the Landscape

SoME thING OFF-KILTER

DIVINE

The First Tear

The worker

THE RED PLANET

The ‘Other’ Man

Keeping It Together

Ghost

Gloss

Keepings

Person Instructions

Transparent

To Eternal Creation

Darwin Indeed

YOU MAY BE DEAD

Grandmother’s Kitchen.

Chemical Engineering

The Woods Wash Anew

Our Multiverse

Among the Trees

Looking Glass Alice

A schmilblick too many

Haim nuts about incredible electronic babe!

Madrid Blues

Mamaw’s Kitchen

totem world

Skin

When I’m Gone

Feet of Clay

I See Me

The Ring

Infinite Potentials

Dispossessed

From One Refrain to the Next

Pot shot

re. Dream Recall

Sparrow’s nest

The Shelf

Transfiguration

Portraits of the Entertainer Billy Tipton

Plaster of Paris

Wearing the Badge

The heart that grew

Snap

Tumblers

Dress Code

Death of the Storyteller

The Reflection

The Seed

Reflect what you are

Build-A-Best-Friend

transubstantiation: from earth to air

Merchandise 7X

Call

The Bowls We Hold

Year 3000 Me

A symbolic gesture

Vessel

Identity / Politics

Same Self

Sneak Peek

Pinocchia’s Got the Blues

Flora and Fauna

Portrait of a Young Man as Canopic Jars

being

Come to Bury

Saving Himself

ALL WE HAVE

THE IMPERFECT IN THE WORLD OF HORTENSE KILPER

your being

To The Spurned

Missing Presumed Dead

The Ceramist

Please do not wear slippers in the workshop

The girl with the moon in her heart

Calling My Creator

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL

lament for José Marti

Copsescar

My robot boyfriend

An Old Photo Reminded Me That —

Endangered Species

Misshapen

A kiln (/kɪln/ or /kɪl/, originally pronounced “kill”, with the “n” silent)

Forsaken Lover

Intimate Moments: A.I.

All Is Not As It Might Seem

The Wink of His Words

Artificial

Shaping Clay

Parts

Brittle

The Things Done Before Pride

In Vivo

Perfectly Whole

a sketch, in the age of everything

SHOWROOM

London Bridge Station

Landfill/lovefill

Scars

<3

AN(N) DROID QUESTIONS

Playpen

The Referee

Who’s Counting?

Accordant

GREEN WATER

Vessels

Bacchantes In The First Canto

Between Twenty and Thirty

This, right here

The Shame

Never Too Late To Say “I Love You” Until…

Pastoral Turf

the uncanny valley of the shadow of death

Le Nouveau Potier

Lens and rotor

An Arboreal Proposal

CLAY POTS AND NO PLASTIC

Floored

twilight

The Curio Shop

oh I did this once

Twofold

Seen Through a National Trust Window

area code 203

War Story

Chai

children see/hear

Pencey Prep

SISTINE AND SIN

How they meet their end

GAME NOT OVER

The Niemandsland

Dream of Mine

The Wrong Corpse

Pottering

All that Remains

Don’t Let Them Tame You

For the Many

Desk Set

CLOSED CIRCUIT

DIVISION OF DESIRE

The precondition

Master Jerry’s Garden

The Potter’s Muse

3.

Career Path

Quarter Century Man

Window onto My Mother’s Work

Past Shattered

The Arena.

How To Create A Diamond

Uncontained

Stuck to the Green

Transparencies

Potshots

It’s the Emblem for Me and for You

How Could I Forget My Name and The Way He Put It

Temerity

The Wisdom of Years Well Lived

Nine yards

Tears For The Town Cryer

Smack Down

Cabaret Café

Falling Through the Cracks

An Unfinished Portrait

Up Rising

Gentle Man in Pinstripes

Ten Years After

TOUCHDOWN

Under the Blue Ipê Tree

The Mission Path

Clashing

Between the Lines

Forever In My Pocket

ABOUT TIME

Paradise

Turf

The Sad Man

God-given Talent

Dr Fibonacci

The Frozen Walk

Sustenance

26

Costs

SPILLAGE

Dust

Before the Torches

Man in space

First Impressions

Shortcuts

The whites of eyes

Rule of Three

Floating

The unprecedented race

Kiln

Man in the moon

Whose Pitch Is It Anyway?

YOU BET THEY’RE WATCHING YOU!

Summer

I’m not there

Element

The Pottery Shop

I need my own space in space

a patch of earth to call your own

Looks can be Deceiving

Destiny

Playwerk

Shadowy Labyrinth

Voicemail

Discarded Nachos

Failing

echo on glass

Lonely man in space

Numerology

Roll On

Without her

Over Me

Thank You, A Eulogy

Isolation

The Game

All the strangers I’ve met in shops

The size of an eyeball

Slipping Beneath Time

Luminescence

Spaced out

Under Clearer Skies

Kitchens and Poetry – No Synchronicity

The spaceman

Football Matters

Patina

That Day at the Hayden Planetarium

“Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe”

Dresden Porcelain

The Star of Gaza

Yards to Go

Collector Of Things

Grain of Man

The Bespoken

Preserves

WALKING IN SPACE

Numberless

Pottery Barn

From Dan Dare To The Daleks

Pushing…

Forwarding Address

domestic

The Bleaching Green

I dream of home

Storage of Past

Who Stole The Digit From 20-3 A.D.

Celestial Sickness

Apothecary

Dire Straits

Syntax Satori

Thursday’s Game

Astrology

Bubbe’s Kitchen

Inhabitant

Finding A Shape

The Beat

An Altered Sense of Perspective

Doing nothing to offend

Along for the Ride

Unseen

The Ocean Beyond

BLACK & WHITE

Untitled

Interbeing

Cold

Look

Winnowing Thoughts From Deep Nonsense

Ortolan

Out of Reach

Show of strength

Forgotten

1,000 Guillotines

Reborn into Zero Gravity

I Am You

Used to be easier

Unshelter(s)

EVA

Silent No More

Scapegoat

You in blue

This is not about an astronaut

CONQUERING FREEDOM, ET CETERA

Theatre lights

Stand Off

THE WHEN

Beneath

SPACE WALK

Get Back To Work

Calling It

Down to Perspective

Sides

ENIGMA OF THE HOUR

Lost Statue

Despite the mask

LOVING A BULLSHIT SPACE-WALKING ANGEL

Kissing away a small irritation

Rarefied

Theatre of War

Encounter

The Protestor

Impure Ballade: Switzerland, Moon, Lecture

NEW AGE PARIS

Rehabilitation

Stand

One way or Another

Une chanson du printemps

I Am a Human. Right?

Reverse osmosis

My Jewels

“Come in, Houston”

RISING

A new dimension

Judgement Day

Reverse-Claustrophobia

Women in Photographs

Ticket

Stargazers

The Planet Spins on its own Axis, Regardless

The Ballad of the Accountant

Scream through nature

The Ticket

Free Will

Ad Infinitum

Wish I Was There

A cake cannot be undone by a baker

On earth, looking up

What to Say When the Prime Minister Calls

bare and brave

Demos

Grip

Resolution

No chance of a selfie

Quiz

De-Atomized

Pink eyeshadow

To Boldly Go…

Broken Binding

Of Them and Us

Mirror Ball

Wake-Up Call

Turning Into Stone/Ahilya’s Curse

New planet who dis?

Doing Nothing

PROTESTS

Some Mothers Do Have Them

Untouchable

Lacking the will to get the ingredients for a smoothie

When Rage Spills Over

All the low poisons

Round round

What I Did

A Traitor to your Generation

A Floating Bladder

Poisoned Personhood

I am

THE LIMITS OF FEATHERS AND WAX

Red-eyed

EXISTENTIAL DREAD

storm

She Carries The Reflection Of Your War

Nothingness and Being

I Choose

How much sleep do we really need?

Gravity

You Think You Have Problems

Dimensional Reduction

Birth

#MP-CW-514 (Special Unit)

Onyx

the day after

THE DEBT

Deception

Such Solitude

Turn this corner

Mother Ulysses

Mystogan

THE DAILY GRIND

LOST RACE

Marianne

Maw of Kites

Woman Overboard

benefit of distance

Makeover

Just Sip

FOOL’S PARADISE

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