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"Letter to Europa"
Ashraf Jamal

Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things
We murder to dissect.

William Wordsworth – ‘The Tables Turned’

Letters, hand-written, stamped and posted, are archaic throwbacks to a culture we nostalgically dub ‘slowness’ – slow food, slow beer, slow sex, slowed down hand-made things. The art gallery however has remained largely immune to this threat to slowness. Instead, in a witheringly ephemeral world the art gallery has thrived as the uber trading hub, temple, and outpost for the authenticity and provenance of things. An ‘alternative …