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				<p><em>Something this way comes,</em> 2021<br />Single-channel digital video, sound<br />Duration 30 min<br />Edition of 5 + 3AP<br />Photographs: Jo Ractliffe<br />Sound: Philip Miller<br />Editing: Catherine Meyburgh</p>

						
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				<p><em>Something this way comes</em>, 2021<br />Experimental 'sound book'<br />Prototype<br />Photographs: Jo Ractliffe<br />Sound: Philip Miller<br />Printing & binding: Heléne van Aswegen, The Book Workshop</p>

						
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