During lunch I took the opportunity to have a quick look around the Daniel Blau gallery on Hoxton Square.
The work that particularly struck me was Oliver Eglin's Markings series which documents graffiti on tree trunks.
The extreme tight focus makes the trunks looks almost alien in their organic folds. The writing is a strange mix of the human regularity and the weathering effect of nature.
The personal nature of the carvings is also touching. The contrast of the ephemeral love and acts of devotion and the permanence of its record in the tree is captured elegantly.