Clare Archibald is a Scottish writer. ‘Parallel of Past Imperfect’ is an extract from her hybrid linked sequence of abstractions The Absolution of Shyness. She has a photography and words pamphlet forthcoming as part of the Gorse Editions series, will be part of the Form Ever Follows Function digital art exhibition in Dublin in 2019, and curates the Lone Women in Flashes of Wilderness project.