Dialectic (from the Greek dialektike techne - ‘art of discussion’) is a philosophic form of debate which dates back to Zeno of Elea, and is to be found more recently in the philosophies of Kant, Hegel and Marx. The process, although variously redefined throughout the ages, consists essentially of a movement from thesis, to antithesis, to synthesis (see Solve et Coagula). For Hegel this process would lead from the lowest unquestionable concept of ‘being’ via a tortuous process of oppositions and synthesis to absolute knowledge. Marx’s dialectical materialism is essentially an inversion of Hegel’s dialectic of spirit leading to absolute communism, and from Marx, Adorno continued up the infinite dead-end alley with his ‘negative dialectics’ of perpetual critique of critique with its own arsenal. What interested me most about the dialectics of whatever, was its collapse. The implosion of totalized systems; anti art becomes the foundation of art practice (see Show Jumper), modernism becomes traditional (see 20th Century Blue), emancipation becomes oppression, abstraction becomes trompe-l’oeil (see Equestrian), truth becomes illusion and vice versa (see 20th Century Blue).