Augusta Vinall Richardson: Wonder wall

On Wonder wall Naomi Riddle 1. If you think of steel, you might think of strength. Or you might think of a kind of immutability: cold, astringent, unflinching. You might consider its properties—iron and carbon—and how its base metal must be pulled from the earth, so you might also think of depth, of darkness, of tunnels underground. But metals like steel, or aluminium, or bronze, are well-versed in hiding their true character: that what makes them most appealing is not their strength but their softness and fallibility. They’re malleable, flexible and endlessly adaptable. They acquiesce to being melted, poured, contorted,...