Bringing together three interconnected bodies of work, Marguerite Humeau’s first monograph Auguries is a view into some of the mysterious patterns that can be found in the natural world, from which the artist draws inspiration. From the termite colonies of the Australian outback that underpin meys, to the windswept sprawl of Orisons occupying Colorado’s San Luis Valley and its eventual figuration in Dust, this lavishly illustrated publication offers a discovery of Humeau’s manifold research and practice.

Commissioned specially for Auguries, an essay by Petra Lange-Berndt considers Humeau’s practice as a laboratory combining speculation and experimentation, while Esther Leslie’s text lends voice to the poetic and esoteric dimensions of the work. An in-conversation with Susanna Greeves provides insight through the artist’s own words, and speaks to a host of contemporary concerns including technology, climate catastrophe and the place of humans, if any, in the future of Earth. Sensitively designed, with the artist’s concepts and conceit in mind, this tactile publication uses Gmund’s textured and flecked paper range ‘Bio Cycle’. Made from environmentally friendly fibres such as wheat straw, grass, cotton and cannabis, the Bio Cycle papers are compostable and able to provide nutrients for new plants.