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Allegory: impersonated abstractions, expounded by emblems
[ allos: other; agoria: speaking
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The disclosure of existential-aesthetic structures occurs in a
transversal play across horizons of pictorial multiplicities (Deleuze),
antecedent as well as co-present (Plato's anamnestic imperative
and Kierkegaard's recollecting forward). Painting is both Hermetic
and Dionysiac, an Odyssey (Schelling), a quest ever underway,
generating self-refering worlds out of itself. It is defined
by relations between its elements as well as relations to other
works (Deleuze). It arises from a play, which, the more richly
it unfolds, the more strictly it is bound by its hidden rule.
The bricoleur (Levy-Strauss) strives to elicit order from ruins.
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It is, it was, it is not; it came, it was, and
it is nothing.
Then it returns to nothing, that which was nothing
before.
Conrad of Fabaria
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