Interior Kingdoms and other vanities Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years. - G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908) In recent years, Vivian van Blerk has grown uneasy with the final photographic prints he used to render imagined worlds, created in maquettes or staged using mises-en-scène and collage. Our contemporary lives are smothered in a profusion of photographic images, on computer screens, in magazines,