The method of laying out two-dimensional objects on a table produces "clarity" and allows perspective. A new text emerges through the combination of intrinsi cally different pieces of paper. The issues dealt with on these tables do not claim to be fully comprehensive and the items chosen do not profess to be definitive examples of their kind.

A weighed approach involves not knowing:rejecting grand statements and embracing doubt.In my studio as well as when setting up exhibi tions, I use tables to layout and look at pictures before they go on a wall or into a book. The pictures are loosely arranged, unfixed, held in position only by their own weight. The method of laying out two-dimensional objects on a table produces "clarity" and allows perspective. A new text emerges through the combination of intrinsi cally different pieces of paper. The issues dealt with on these tables do not claim to be fully comprehensive and the items chosen do not profess to be definitive examples of their kind.Rather, this multi-vocal process allows me to amplify voices I feel need strengthening,contrasting them with their opposites and their neighbours.The tables project was born out of the realisation that a prime issue of our time is the problems and conflicts brought about by people claiming absolute truths. Pragmatic acceptance of relativity illuminated the 1990s. In recent years absolutist voices of the religiously intolerant and the politically reactionary dominate political discourse. It feels like a dogmatic minority has hijacked the world while people who see things more conditionally watch in disbelief feeling powerless. Addressing this confusion I made "truth study centre," a field of work that enables me to sort, group, neighbour, overlap, add and accumulate elements.Despite the numerous "truths" there is a wide consensus about the inevitability of widely implemented economic decisions, which are largely hailed as 'flexible' but are utterly unprogressive. Rather than advance quality of life for all, the aims are to drive down labour costs, increase shareholder value, and hand over public property including water, health, and public transport to the private profit-driven sector. A majority of populations in many countries now generally understand the increasing gap between rich and poor as "absolutely unavoidable". This economized approach to life disregards values created by a coherent and undivided society. Instead individual desires to belong as well as to feel safe are strategically channeled into four groups: nat~on, family,religion and paying consumers. Communal and collective activities and expressions that do not fit into these categories or are otherwise free of financial interests are marginalised.The point of departure when making this book were questions such as: When do developments become noticeable? When is a process.