With degrees in philosophy, religion, archaeology, and post-disciplinary practice, my background spans the orthodox triad of arts, humanities, and science. This combination has fueled my interest in heterogeneous networks and relational realism, demanding close attention to how theory and practice interconnect, including the resulting responses. This is an often tense environment, for people naturally prefer the easiest route (not unlike water!), especially when they see a need to defend acquired territory. It is also an ethical approach that respects the non-human other, rejecting binary oppositions and exploring the folding of temporalities. It is, therefore, perhaps inevitable that my writing has leaned towards intertextuality, particularly through more experimental forms rather than sticking to conventional strategies and modes of output. I blame deep mapping, once that gets under one's skin it has a habit of creating a conceptual bar that nothing else can ever quite reach - you have been warned...

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Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep,

The living leaves recoil before our fires,

Baring to us war-charred and broken branches,

And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

Kathleenn Raine, London Trees.