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Doug Bowker's avatar

"...the object encompasses itself."

Jean-Paul Sartre: Surely "Frenchiest" of all Jean-Pauls! I do love the way his words have a way of both confounding and enlightening the mind of the reader. But does "the object encompasses itself" really? Physically yes, but then it just becomes a collection of materials; paper, graphite, etc.

Is it not our perception that that does "real" encompassing? We perceive not just marks, but a drawing. Not "just" bits of graphite on a flat surface of dried wood pulp, but a portrait of a man sitting at a table, with a window behind.

We perceive, we interpret; both we and the artist delineate the boundaries.

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Marek Bennett's avatar

Oh yeah! I love it when a drawing explodes from empty space like a fish from the depths. 😁

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