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Woken by unfamiliar light, to unknown possibility: the longed-for respite

Hotel room as time machine, taking you back twenty years

This sparse room, prison cell, hermit’s retreat, somehow enlightens me

Overloaded with embedded stories of dreams, realities, failures, and glories.

One night only: exhibition space. Leaving tomorrow without a trace

Sage advice for hotel rooms or life: higher is better

A telephone that never rings, so many other lonely things

The hope of creative invigoration, let down by insipid decoration

Everything you are in one location, the rest merely fabrication

All lost souls present and past, transitory figures, existence’s guests

1. Zleep, Madrid. August 2024

2. Best Western. Tiverton. December 2022

3. University of Kent, Canterbury. July 2021

4. Kensington Forum. London. September 2021

5. Bloc Hotel. Gatwick Airport. London. November 2018

6. Ibis Wembley. London. 2022

7. Holiday Inn Express, Neath. June 2019

8. Best Western. Tiverton. December 2022

9. Holiday Inn Whitechapel, London. June 2021

10. Moxy, London Heathrow Airport. May 2022

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