It's like the horizon, she says, always just within reach, always eluding us. In New York, her surrealist sculptures now rise from the street at monumental scale, asking strangers to stop, look up, and perhaps speak to each other. For Charlotte Colbert, that is not a small act. It is the whole point.

She builds the soundscape first. Then the image emerges from it. RCA London graduate Liang-Hsin Huang — Taichung, Taiwan — on animation as poetry, Szymborska's elegies, river of fireflies, and why her only job is to reveal.