‘When your daily life involves googling information numerous times a day (sometimes numerous times an hour) - especially since the integration of AI doing your thinking for you and telling you, in response, a concrete ‘answer’ - to see rows and rows of collections of things (butterflies, shells, taxidermy birds, seaweeds, photographs, scrapbooks) donated entirely in anticipation of someone else’s curiosity and critical attention, it’s heartening. It’s human.'’

‘Eventually, FRONDS will inform the production of what I hope will be a publication down the line, featuring words and pictures from a range of contributors, but led by my process. As a thread running through this initial phase, I know it’s going to be essential that I write informally throughout, to practice that editing process and so that a narrative can begin to take shape. So, welcome.’