‘1 Path With 2 Degrees of Separation’, is an 80 page riso printed publication by Angus Hamilton James, Lydia Harris, and Finley Highton exploring contemporary image making through archival material from the exhibition ‘Simply to Bang a Drum’ (2025), alongside a collection of essays.
Each publication comes hand bound, with 1 of 7 relief printed dust covers that depict oscilloscope images from different moments during the exhibition. Inside are 3 essays which explore image transfer, artwork, noise, radiation, and logical structures. All images in the publication have been created by the same pen plotter from the exhibition itself together with a custom font – highlighting words throughout the reading experience, reintroducing the machine in the process.
The publication contains 3 essays, written by Angus Hamilton James: ‘Transfer’ ‘Through the Frame Itself, Practices of Denoising in Photography’, and ‘Chase’. The full texts for the first two essays are available here, the final essay cannot be formatted for this website, and is only available in print. Copies may be available on request.