Influential Post-Structuralist Jacques Derrida theorised in Of Grammatology that writing is not merely a secondary representation of speech but an independent system of signs with its own logic. Meaning is always deferred to the reader, listener or interpreter, denying any fixed meaning in the written form. It is shaped by what is in between the words and sentences, impacted by the lived experience of the reader as much as (if not more than!) the intention of the writer.

First published in 1967, the AI-driven translation, grammar and summary software of today was far from invention. These tools have a habit of guessing, misinterpreting and removing context - particularly when encouraged to do so.

While The End of The Liver is the whole work printed on top of each other a second work was created: Each of the new pages was read, sentences extracted to created poetic - sometimes prophetic - collections of words that read as a mantra for a digital age. This partner project is called To The Sacred Void

Both works were exhibited in August 2022 in a Solo exhibition: Sand Time and File Space.

The title, The End of The Liver is the nonsense translation of the first words of Chapter 1.