[] The texts below form a connected sequence of enquiries into perception, attention, material form, and artistic practice. Together they develop the concepts of Intersentient States, the Attentional Interval, and the Sisyphean Horizon as evolving frameworks for understanding how artworks shape and sustain human attention.
[] Still: A Quiet Endurance
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A reflective essay on the influence of Samuel Beckett’s short prose piece Still on Barrow’s practice. It considers reduction, silence, endurance, and the possibility that material form may remain active long after explanation has receded.
[] Intersentient States: The Attentional Interval (2025).
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Introduces the concept of Intersentient States: perceptual conditions in which awareness appears distributed across the encounter between observer and form. The essay establishes the vocabulary and questions that underpin the writings that follow.
[] Almost Touching: The Attentional Interval as a Critical Threshold in Perception (2026).
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Examines the Attentional Interval as a critical threshold that emerges when forms approach one another without fully resolving. Drawing upon studio practice, phenomenology, and systems thinking, it proposes a framework for understanding how attention is intensified and prolonged.
[] Sisyphean Horizon: Perpetual Approximation and the Attentional Interval (2026).
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Introduces the Sisyphean Horizon: a condition in which resolution is continually approached yet never fully attained. Through artists including Coper, Giacometti, Morandi, Michikawa, and Scarpa, the essay explores how enduring works sustain attention by remaining partially unresolved.
[] Intersentient States: An Attentional Interval (2026).
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Develops the concept of Intersentient States through vessels, sculpted heads, painting, architecture, and studio practice. The essay explores how material form may sustain attention through restraint, duration, spatial relation, and presence.