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Anja Percival

One of my favourite things that yesterday's little jaunt to the Biscuit Factory turned up is the work of printmaker Anja Percival. Her work is a beautiful study of hazily lit urban areas — gentle glows picking out and softening abstract sections of carpentered environments. These prints manage to capture the contrasts of the subject — the implied warmth beyond the window contrasting with the lonely, slightly sinister feeling of being outside looking in. I have to admit that they reminded me of nothing so much as the beginning of Braid, when the protagonist makes his way through the darkened city to his home — which, not coincidentally, is one of my favourite moments in a game, ever.