‘If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.’ ~ William Blake

dub: a copy of.
spectrum: the entire range.

dub spectrum is a creative ethos focusing primarily on writing and lens-based media. I integrate photography, haiku and walking in nature to explore its potential as a poetical form. The form orientates from an embodied, transient experience alongside the interrelation between the haiku’s structure and compositional techniques in landscape photography: both expressing ways of seeing beyond time.

I also write various works under the pseudonym Percival Alexander. Here, I tend to explore themes of existential despair and catharsis in an absurd world. This started out as incorporating short written pieces into paintings on plasterboard (drawing inspiration from the literary style of Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra and Oscar Wilde’s prose poems), which gradually evolved into longer reads. An introduction to my debut novel, Adrift in Amnesia, can be found here. Info about my first book of poetry, The Cycle Diaries, can be found here.

dub spectrum embraces self-sufficiency, drawing from the DIY approach of underground music movements, which sees creativity as the antithesis of the cold and corporatised rationalism that seems to be driving the world’s descent into misery and madness. My work orientates largely from the tension between Blake’s innocence and experience and the idea that once the energy of imagination is used effectively to realise the connection between man and nature, the individual gains freedom from the restrictive bonds of unimaginative thought.

2025

contact: unityofkana(at)gmail.com