Commissioned and screen-printed by Small Night Zine in 2021, Grey Wall was conceived through the use of artist Emma Roche's drawings, which she generously sent originals by post. They have an altogether different mood to the artist's paintings, from her soulful She-Wolf to soulless Darth Vader in their frieze-like profiles and Seurat hum. They are fugitive drawings that think painting but don't do painting. They are the architecture, the archetypes, the sad viaducts and empty vestibules of her Autumn studio, waiting for physical and chroma consolation, things to be leafed through, wither, recede. If Emma's painting can be analogised with the 8-bit Atari game DIG DUG pulsing beneath the woolly throw upon the couch before the warm fire, Emma's drawings are out in the cold of everyday essence, receding beyond the fold of attention. The silkscreen versions are even more pared back, reusing the routine, rigid and repetitive graph pattern to emphasise the everyday from which they are borne and born. They are, in essence, the dust mite's memory of the physical painting. They are the grey wall which art aspires to.