I went to see Mike Nelson’s exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, his immersive show where he collects materials and objects from recycling depots, car factories, charity shops, and other places, transforming and reconstructing them. Referencing science fiction, failed political movements, dark history, and counter-culture, he touches on alternative ways of living and thinking: lost belief systems disrupted histories and cultures.

negative comment; rather, I feel uncertain when I step into each of the galleries and feel uneasy. This may have been due to my fear of being in a dimension of time that is unfamiliar to us.

One of my more impressive works is The Deliverance and The Patience. It is a vast interior space that is divided into many different rooms with different scenes, all of which are rather neglected and can be seen as traces of time.

I was most excited about a sand-filled space called The Bluff Canyon. First exhibited in Oxford in 2004, this work can be seen as a tribute to Robert Smithson’s Partially Buried Woodshed. When I first saw the installation, I thought of a film: Dune. There is a scene in it where modern concrete and desert come together.