![]() Images from The Ground are failures in their own right made to show something of the futility of trying to fix an image on a ground in any permanent way. ![]() Western New York Book Arts Center: "The Ground is an essay book including photographs made between 20 in a geothermal area of Iceland and at hydrofracking sites in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, as well as writing that documents failures both personal and historical to access the ground as a source of energy and to grasp its power. This essay book is about personal and historical failures to access the ground – both literally and metaphorically – as a source of energy and grasp its power." The resulting images are interwoven with a personal essay where Tate recounts a period when he lived in a pastoral part of Pennsylvania now inundated by the natural gas industry. The photographs were printed with an inkjet printer on heavy printmaking paper and then water was applied to wash out areas of the ink. Preacher Biscuit's Books: "Tate Shaw's The Ground started with photographs made between 20 in a geothermal area of Iceland and at hydrofracking and former coal mining sites in Pennsylvania. Rochester, New York: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2013.ġ2 x 8" 124 pages with 2 gatefolds. We simply accept that analog books are lasting objects but in order to last they call for our continual participation." My work comes into being through the collaboration of a reader and a book may always be further reenacted, and reinterpreted, and this makes it an ongoing thing. There isn’t a central subject to my work other than a concern for structure and a way of connecting to people through ideas. ![]() Tate Shaw: "I make books to directly connect with other people and to learn something about the limits of connectivity. It’s a top five of classic British biscuits that have been around for many years, and which are all well suited to dunking in a nice cup of tea.Preacher's Biscuit Books: "Publications reliant on the material book as a metaphor to create meaning in works by visual, sound and language artists." Ian Atkinson, CMO at SunLife said: “The results of our biscuit poll make quite surprising reading, but I’m happy to see the Ginger Nut (a personal favourite) taking the top spot. “Fruit shortcake – can’t dunk chocolate in tea!” Howard “I love most biscuits, but chocolate digestive and ginger nuts are the best with tea for me.” Jenny ![]() “I love all biccies, but a dunked bourbon is my best.” Julie “Any biscuit that can be dunked into a cuppa at the time of drinking is the best biscuit!!” Dee ![]() The poll also discovered that dunkability is a key factor for older Brits, with many of the poll’s respondents citing ‘dunking’ as a reason for their choice of biscuit: The five that came in after Nice biscuits were Fruit Shortcakes, plain Hobnobs, Garibaldis, Fig Rolls and chocolate Hobnobs. The only chocolate biscuits in the top ten were the Chocolate Digestive (6) and Bourbon (8), and only three with ‘fillings’ made the top ten – Custard Creams, Jammy Dodgers and Bourbons. In second place was Rich Tea, followed by a plain Digestive and a Custard Cream, while Shortbread made up the top five. So, given older Brits are the biscuit authority, over 50s experts SunLife polled more than 450 of them to find out their biccie of choice. One in four people tuck into biscuits daily, and as a nation we spend more than £3bn on the sugary snacks year.Īnd it is older Brits that love biscuits the most – 31% admit to eating at least one a day, and they put taste above all other factors when purchasing their favourite snack – even if it means spending a bit more. The humble biscuit has been a British staple for hundreds of years, and even in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, shoppers are showing no signs of quitting their habit. ![]()
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