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Blind Art by Derrida

The artistic power of seeing and making visible is inhabited by blindnesses it cannot recognize.

"Joseph-Benoit Suvee’s ‘Butades, or the Origin of Drawing’ (1791), is a painting of the young Corinthian woman Butades in Greek antiquity who, facing separation from her lover, traces his shadow on the wall.

"It comes from a tradition in which the origin of drawing is attributed to memory rather than perception. The narrative relates the origin of graphic representation to the absence or invisibility of the model.

"This suggests, drawing originates in blindness.

"(a) The artist is blind: The object or model, even if facing the artist, cannot be seen at the same moment as the mark of drawing is made. There’s always a gap or delay. The mark relies on memory. And when memory is invoked, the present object is ignored: the artist will be blind to it.

"(b) The process of drawing is blind: Drawing, like language, is impossible without the play of the trace, the play of presence and absence. And this cannot be seen.

"So there’s a double blindness, with the presence and absence (Butades’ problem) at the origin. The artistic power of seeing and making visible is inhabited by blindnesses it cannot recognize."

text: Introducing Derrida, Collins and Mayblin, 1996, pp. 145-146
image: Projection Systems

Kahaani – A brief review

A thriller… absolutely. Hint: nothing is what it seems.

Absolutely fabulous: being in India, in the big city… not used to Indian culture… language includes Hindi (with subtitles) and English and more. And a fabulous (remember the root of that word is “fable”) plot.

Highly Recommended… you’ll never think India’s movie culture is [only] Bollywood anymore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahaani
http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70236020&trkid=2361637&t=Kahaani

Ladders by Ludwig Wittgenstein

"My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them – as steps – to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.)"

text courtesy Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1918, 6.54, Ludwig Wittgenstein

my landform is my breasts

image courtesy ars longa; vita brevis