Sometimes it is rocket science. I suppose the clue is when it involves a rocket as long as we're not talking about salad.

A very large space is required for people to look at space junk. I'm looking forward to the day when aliens do actually arrive and we show them round "And this is the place we keep some of the old space vehicles that didn't work very well but are, surprisingly, even more expensive to keep here than they ever were to run. What? Don't we recycle? Yes, of course.. As long as it was something that had yoghurt in it." They'll think we're nuts. Which of course we are.

I think I have mentioned this before but will again. The photographic image has dominated our perception of the world for too many years. Our expectations of a view are seriously controlled by those limits. In certain landscape painting from times prior to the eighteen hundreds you can detect a roaming eye that breaks that unecessary window but not so much these days. Our favourite modern artist David Hockney does, of course, and you can see it in his later California and British landscapes and I think his joiner photography has done a lot to help him psychologically break those unconscious frontiers. I don't know if it has been fully discussed or assessed in his work and might be misunderstood as a carry on from his interest in cubism.

That is probably not clear enough. What the single view of the eye is capable of doesn't need to be the limits of an image, especially in fine art. In photography a single image imposes a false architecture firstly because all single point images are 'false' but then by means of, perhaps, a wide angle lens or even a fish eye. The distortions in these latter forms we also, ultimately, take for granted. The lack of straight horizontals or verticals we accept as necessary, as a reality. Only if we are lazy about it.

The image above does incorporate elements of that distortion in some sections but not in others. It isn't immediately obvious where the alternatives are presented. I rather hope it is unconsciously sensed that there are lots of parts that go to make up this whole.

The bottom left has a pair of hands taking a snap. Pity they were out of focus. Or is it?