Art has an alarming capacity to unearth personal bias and prejudice. Like a mole it digs into the psychological constructions of the world we experience and evokes reflective material. The Word Bites preceding clearly demonstrate this encounter. When looking at Flossie’s texts, it is not so much a question of what we see; rather, it is a question of what these texts do to us. If, after wandering through her representations of her experience of the world, it is concluded that the texts have done nothing to the observer; even then, it is the case that they have done something.

Hans- Georg Gadamer (1911-2002) the German writer on the subject of hermeneutics, dedicated his life to understanding human interpretive processes. We belong to our world via the way we interpret our world. We connect ourselves to our world via texts -literary texts, visual texts and human texts. All have narratives at their core which have a much more powerful impact upon our sense of belonging than ‘objective truth’. Indeed, we ourselves are ‘living texts’. Sometimes we are disconnected from our world by the way we are understood and interpreted by others. We find we no longer ‘fit’. The end result is marginalisation and alienation. We are all asylum seekers searching for a sanctuary