Most Delicious Poison Publisher / Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University elegy to victims of colonial

elegy to victims of colonial conquest: Wilson Harris’ masterpiece has defied definition for over sixty years

involving the most representative artists of the Sixties

Francis Bacon and Tom of Finland

a large nomadic tribe living in the arid heartland of Australia

Most Delicious Poison Publisher / Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University elegy to victims of colonialScratch the surface of a coffee bean, a chilli flake or an apple seed and find a bevy of strange chemicals biological weapons in a war raging unseen. Here, beetles, birds, bats and butterflies must navigate a minefield of specialised chemicals and biotoxins, each designed to maim and kill. And yet these chemicals, evolved to repel marauding insects and animals, have now become an integral part of our everyday lives. Some we use to greet our days