Untitled (detail)
Pencil on paper
46cm x 42cm
© 2008 Tammy Lu

“A well-defined state of affairs is the work of many forces. They agree about nothing and associate only via long networks in which they talk endlessly without being able to sum one another up. They intermingle, but they cannot reach outside themselves to take in what binds them, opposes them, and sums them up. However, despite everything, networks reinforce one another and resist destruction. Solid yet fragile, isolated yet interwoven, smooth yet twisted together, entelechies form strange fabrics.”

Bruno Latour, Irreductions (1984)