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The lines above are taken from some notes sent to me by Max, in aid of me articulating this response to his work for Wormholes. I’ve been responding privately to Max’s work for quite some time but to put into words what he and I seem similarly predisposed to leave to painting to say, is another thing. The writer Deborah Levy, who is a hero of mine, said that ‘to not over explain is to work at a human friendly level of consciousness.’ So that's what I’ll try to do here. Failing that, Max’s words can stand in.

Max and I are both painters, and both parents of very young children, and both …