On the first and last pages of Make Ready two photographs I took while travelling in China in 1999 are reprised from my Hardsleeper (Emigre Music, 2000) album cover. In the first a man lies on a bed, a folded sheet over his chest and he wears a wrist-watch. Without knowledge of the setting it is uncertain from the image if he is alive or dead, consequently the timepiece plays a heightened role.

Fig. 21 Hardsleeper, 1999.

Maybury, P. (1999) Hard Sleeper, digital scans from 35mm transparencies