'Had you lapped the summit of Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh. Had you kept in check the numbing and inattention. Had you remembered that breathfulness, the new mindfulness, is a panacea for the twenty-first century. Had you found a place to stand, inhaled the dephlogisticated air, you too would’ve moved the whole world and staved off the alexithymia, and heard.

Heard the silence of the ascent, heard that city fade, heard the peak’s wind tear, heard the audiobook from the headphone mum, heard the kids shriek. The afternoon. Risen and diffuse. Until there was no traffic, not even a barking dog.'

Text for artist Jenny Hogarth's inclusion in Aggregate 2022: Freelands Artist Programme major project commission and publication.