In this early project of longtime collaborators Helen Douglas and Telfer Stokes, the pages of the book support the construction, elaboration, and penetration of multiple surfaces. The narrative takes the form of a slow photographic zoom into and through a hole in the wall, onto another wall and its billboard that is itself a surface for a series of changing wheat pasted images. At the center of the billboard the film – and the sequence – flips, and the camera zooms out to return the reader to his or her original position – sort of. From this other side of the looking glass, another tale, “furry tail” unfurls held together by a literal (photograph of a) thread. Simple black and white photographic imagery and sophisticated editing make Loophole a compelling story of the complex interplay of real and representational space, and the unique space of the book.