 His work often deploys satire, anachronism, mock solemnity, and paradox.This took the form of a short play launched at the "Weak Signals & Wild Cards" exhibition at De Appel Arts Centre.Commentators have suggested that the name of the masque's main character Ascian might be a reference "to the people of Gene Wolfe's novel "The Book of the New Sun" in which the only permitted communication is the quoting of lines from the state's constitution."