Portraits of South Asian Writers: Lucinda Douglas-Menzies

Black and white photographic portraits of South Asian Writers taken by Lucinda Douglas-Menzie

Temporal Stabilities

Cosmati paving in Roman churches inspired work resulting in visualisations that represent the palimpsest of pilgrim footfall and a C21st haunting of the spaces. Images constitute an amalgam of artistic methodology and exist as hybrid form that echo spaces redolent of hidden histories

Shared: CHECK MATE SQUARED

New digital photobooth interactive work, period original photo-booth analogue collages, drawings, inkjet and ctype prints. Money raised for Macmillan Charity

Straw poll: Painting is fluid but is it porous?

This paper addresses concerns about a society that appears increasingly predicated on issues surrounding 'accountability' in art. I wish to investigate perceptions of what has now become commonplace vocabulary, that of the rhetoric of 'art practice' and 'art research'

Imbibition in Disordered Media

The physics of liquids in porous media gives rise to many interesting phenomena, including imbibition where a viscous fluid displaces a less viscous one. Here we discuss the theoretical and experimental progress made in recent years in this field. The emphasis is on an interfacial description, akin to the focus of a statistical physics approach. Coarse-grained equations of motion have been recently presented in the literature. These contain terms that take into account the pertinent features of imbibition: non-locality and the quenched noise that arises from the random environment, fluctuations of the fluid flow and capillary forces. The theoretical progress has highlighted the presence of intrinsic length-scales that invalidate scale invariance often assumed to be present in kinetic roughening processes such as that of a two-phase boundary in liquid penetration. Another important fact is that the macroscopic fluid flow, the kinetic roughening properties, and the effective noise in the problem are all coupled. Many possible deviations from simple scaling behaviour exist, and we outline the experimental evidence. Finally, prospects for further work, both theoretical and experimental, are discussed.Comment: Review article, to appear in Advances in Physics, 53 pages LaTe