MRAO, June 2005

“I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: ‘If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight.’ I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.” Albert Einstein, […]

MRAO, June 2005

I was walking with some friends in Wales, near St Davids, late in the afternoon on New Year’s Day in 1994. We were on top of a hill, miles from the nearest village or isolated farmhouse and one had a definite sense of being on the edge of things, a feeling of existing outside society. […]

Up to the Royal Canal again, trying to get a shot of the water. As the wind was getting up and it was beginning to rain, a man was walking along the towpath on the other side. He shouted across, asking me how I was doing and if I’d got some good pictures. Walking off, […]

[photo | Vincent O’Riley]

Lyon, April 2000

(Photograph bought in a New York flea market, May 1994.)

(Photograph bought in a New York flea market, May 1994.)

[photo | Jenny Mercer & Tim O’Riley]

Oblique view of Antonello da Messina’s Our Lady of the Annunciation (1474-7?) in the Palazzo Abatellis, Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Palermo. The gallery was designed by Carlo Scarpa and opened in 1954.

(Coins flattened on the railway line running through Marfa, Texas 2006.)

(Stamps issued by the Irish Post Office in 1943 on the centenary of William Rowan Hamilton’s discovery of quaternions. Hamilton lived and worked at Dunsink Observatory, near Dublin, from 1827 until his death in 1865.)

Goudhurst, July 2007

(Photograph bought in a New York flea market, May 1994.)

(Richard Hamilton, Epiphany, 1963-89; replica badge given away free to visitors at the Anthony d’Offay exhibition, Summer 1991.)

(Lapel badge and schematic map of the road from Socorro, New Mexico to the Very Large Array.)

photo | JKM

photo | JKM

Cologne, March 2006

London, November 2005

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