Sadly, my one favourite etching by Blake," Ancient of Days" (1794) was missing from the "Gothic Nightmares" exhibition. This picture depicts God as an Architect, but when I first fell in love with it I had come to the conclusion that heaven and hell are very much places we create for ourselves here on earth and Man the only architect of his fate. A notion which today makes me willing to consider that I may not be the best architect on the face of the earth: though I've stayed persistently true to the overall structure, the nooks and crannies have often taken on surprising shapes...