"Something else about these photographs has caught my eye. Chunky is in hi-viz, the 21st century uniform of the ordinary worker. But his employer is not an ordinary workplace. K2 Plant Hire was founded by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty in 1995 with a view to solving the ongoing disarray at Stonehenge. Either somebody should fix them up or the whole thing should be scrapped as unworkable, they thought. Bulldoze the stones? It’s a perverted idea, and I worry for the sanity of anyone who’d entertain it. That said, every time my dad drove us past them on the A303 I’d brace myself for the inevitable, unbearable announcement: ‘It’ll be nice when it’s finished!’ Perhaps he would have been persuaded by K2’s masterplan. Anyway, with K2’s original mission in mind, Chunky’s activities on the plateau start to look a bit dodgy. Could he be assessing the site? Scoping the pyramids for demolition?

Logic is starting to disintegrate now, so we must go further into these dream-like images. The ancient Egyptians wrote on papyrus, and sometimes, to be economical, they’d erase their marks and reuse the scrolls. The traces left behind would turn the papyrus into a palimpsest: an object where the old is visible alongside the new. What happens if we look at these photographs as a palimpsest? Maybe we can identify a stain of the past lurking behind the bright colours: the day the K Foundation burned a million quid. I tried to avoid it, but it won’t go away. The burning, which took place on 23 August, 1994, brought about the end of Bill and Jimmy’s first chapter as collaborators. A year later they signed a contract agreeing to place a 23-year moratorium on the K Foundation’s activities, after which they hoped they’d have a better idea of why they did it. When that contract expired in 2017, it was followed by the announcement of The Peoples Pyramid.” – Chal Ravens, THE KROSSING