"The pictorial ground of each photograph - the field of the event - is provided by tarpaulin cloth. The grid reappears here, discretely, in the warp and weft of the fabric, but it is disrupted by the marks and scuffs, folds and wrinkles produced by the objects thrown upon it, such that the fabric recalls the images of waves in Water rises ... (Again, as so often happens in Judith Cowan's work, one material condition implies a relation to its other - sight and touch, solid and fluid, weight and weightlessness). Or, the fabric is roughly overlaid by a second layer of cloth whose cut-out disks are now flat, now rumpled into irregular holes, now echoed in the third dimension by a sphere. Ordinary household objects are scattered on these surfaces, some at rest, others - like the turquoise blue plate - caught by the camera in the act of spinning so that their form dissolves in the trajectory of their movement, or passage, through time. One might also say that the light sensitive particles that would stand for the plate have migrated and mingled with those representing the cloth, the one folded into the other to produce something else again."

Jean Fisher

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, U.K. Catalogue essay in Passages & Incidents