Patrick Semple, ‘Avow’, Found Objects/Readymades, March 2008. Photo: Patrick Semple. Courtesy: OCCUPY MY TIME. Avow equates the journey beneath the river from the Isle of Dogs (that powerhouse of wealth built on the Stygian marsh) to the temple of the Enlightenment on the opposite bank with those rites of passage in all our lives that go beyond this world into new life.