Long fingers from the past reach out to Tyler Norton, crossing boundaries of logic and time. In China, he finds reality and illusion are difficult to separate.‘Just like last night, after the dreams, I feel disturbed, guilty. And something else. Scared.I look down into the stagnant canal water and see reflections. People are walking behind me ... I turn quickly ... but there’s no one on the bridge but me.’Abduction by pirates, a desperate bid for freedom, and an irresistible obsession: ‘He wouldn’t like to bet on their chances of getting out of this alive.’