From a painting by Piero di Cosimo, itself based on Lucretius’s Latin text De rerum natura, and a performance piece by John Cage involving chance processes, Sophie Collins initiates a dislocating thread of stories, ruminating on honesty and figurative language. With a long-standing interest in scaffolds and other functional structures, Sophie has also been focussing on the abundance of scaffolds in Spoleto – particularly noticeable because of recent earthquake damage – and in Italy more broadly. She is interested in the common contemporary evocation of the scaffold, conversationally, as an analogy or metaphor for various kinds of support, and how such metaphorical language can risk curtailing critical thinking on a given subject.

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