Ainslie Templeton

I recently discovered I was born under the malevolent star Algorab. Like most stars observable without high-powered telescopes, its name is ancient, derived from the Arabic meaning “the crow”.

My grandfather loved optical illusions, M. C. Escher in particular. He kept a ready supply of prints to show me when I used to visit as a child, pulling Escher’s Relativity from a drawer for …

“Nobody” saw it coming when Schapelle Corby dropped her collaborative single with singer-songwriter Nat Zeleny, Palm Trees, over the 2018 new year. As the first packaged artistic output of …