15 September

One of my obvious passions is trying to show how our model of the world, where we make big things complex and little things simple, is backwards. One of the most beautiful examples of this is sand. Up close (little) it's a wonderland of colour and complexity, far away (big) it's a fairly homogeneous mass of single-coloured stuff. (William Blake had it mixed up too, he thought you could 'see the world in a grain of sand'. There is no such thing as a grain of sand.)