Olivier Richon’s photographic work proposes an investigation and celebration of the artifice of representations. He uses a large format camera to quote genres and other images. The series Iconologia contains multi-layered, fragmentary and ambiguous references to other texts and arts. This work makes reference to the 18th-century novel Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, a pioneering book about writing a novel and deconstructing its structure at the same time. It is nowadays described as the first postmodern text.

Sterne occasionally abandons words in favour of diagrams. In this case Richon uses an image from the novel, where Sterne attempts to show the path the story has taken so far. (Volume VI, Chapter XL). The photograph's accompanying text also refers to one of the novel's main themes, a budding romance between the Widow Wadman and Tristram's Uncle Toby. The Widow is understandably concerned to know exactly where Toby received his war wounds.

Another of Richon's photographs (E.1598-1991) shows a later diagram, where Uncle Toby's friend Corporal Trim waves a stick to demonstrate the benefits of remaining single.