Tim Coghlan — Hell's Gates modernism Erlend's characters have a desperate

Erlend's characters have a desperate urge of expression

At once dreamlike in its atmosphere and palette

In the summer of 2015

The book also examines the struggle to find one’s voice and the act of getting voices to speak or be silent

Laurie Anderson

Tim Coghlan — Hell's Gates modernism Erlend's characters have a desperateThe ubiquity of images and visual information that marks our contemporary experience is hardly a revelation. With little more than an errant search engine entry or the scroll of a smartphone screen, we can unearth a glut of photographs, animated gifs or video content that would have proved impossible to access only a decade or so ago. But amidst the morass of images that drown the digital present not to mention the cloud of desensitisation that rises