Guy Archard's first book is an enigmatic exploration of beauty and decay, both in the physical and the metaphysical form. Abstracted pictures take the viewer on a poetic meander through relationships with loved ones past and present, accompanied by pondering day-dream fixations on everyday objects.

Archard applies various modes of reproduction in his work, projecting his own manipulation onto physical objects, transforming what exists in physicality into artifacts and signifiers of his own world of contemplation. Sometimes he retains clear documentation of immediate vision, which anchors his place in the recognisable state of being. The pictures integrate with each other as if he were drifting between reality and unconsciousness: vivid recollections appear within the mist of translucent ones, amid an ongoing struggle between the self and the other.

Although the work is a personal creation, the story is open. The book has been laid out in such a way as to invite the viewer to reflect on their own sense of self, and to conceive their own connections between pictures. There is no text to direct the reader, encouraging a completely original narrative from the material provided.