Using his computer, Will Hughes has been playing for a year or so with patterns he first saw on my boards. My friend and colleague from the University of Reading with whom I share most lunches, he has become fascinated with entoptic images and their rôle in art, beginning with cave art, which I could not stop telling him about. His early compositions borrowed as heavily from my work as I have borrowed from the work of others, as well as from ornaments and characters from many an alphabet, but he has long been doing his own thing. Most important, he finds tremendous joy in his exploration. That joy is visible in his compositions. Early on, he printed his black-white-and-red patterns on A4 paper, but then he started experimenting with smaller formats. The size of business cards, his batches of cards are a marvel to flip through, arrange in rows and columns, compare and contrast, and divide into groups. Will’s children have taken them to school, and other children have enjoyed playing with them, also. At first he printed the cards on his own color printer, but now he is going for the real thing. The first batch of thirty-two cards is about to be produced by a printing shop, and other batches are likely to follow. At the moment, he is going for one thousand batches. He will use them as calling cards of sorts. But the last step he has taken is the most exciting. His new website (www.efragments.com), which will eventually contain both his compositions and his writings, has just come on line. Quite a site it is, too. Will’s compositions can be seen either arrayed in rows and columns, or one by one, each one projected on the entire screen. Strong and cheerful, they bring Will to a well-traveled path. Simple and clean, they betray little of the toil that goes into their making with the help of computer software. Inscrutable and powerful, they point to the beginning of time. Fragments upon fragments, breaking apart and recombining ever anew…