My Eye on You, written for the duo Kai and Sunny, stars a character from The Bone Clocks with the ability to alter time. Here, Mitchell recalls being sparked into action by seeing drawing like ‘a picture of God’s retina’
A shadowy presence stalks London’s Stolen Space Gallery, hurrying from the edge of viewers’ vision, slipping across mirrors. But the blurred figure flitting among the Technicolor whirls of duo Kai and Sunny’s latest exhibition, Whirlwind of Time, isn’t a video installation or a piece of performance art – it’s the narrator of a short story written specially for the show by David Mitchell.
My Eye on You marks the return of a character from Mitchell’s Booker prize-longlisted novel The Bone Clocks, describing how the critic Richard Cheeseman turns away from a desperate plan to revenge himself on the ageing novelist Crispin Hershey and discovers an ability to shift the flow of time.
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