Passages is a handsome and self-contained work.
Lavishly illustrated and hardbound, it details Nelson's art over the past decade or so. Many of the documentary photographs are supplemented by smaller, related diagrammatic illustrations that aim to open up both Benjamin Genocchio's text and Nelson's practice to a potential myriad of theoretical readings. Genocchio's text is lucid, drawing references from contemporary French theory through to Nelson's wide-ranging interests from Islamic mathematics and Platonic geometry through to issues of contemporary ecology. Nevertheless in particular instances the book seems to promise more than it contains. The essay skims from point to point gathering references yet rarely subjecting Nelson's art to any analytical or general critical scrutiny.