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"i began to recognize the difference between imagery and physicality, that everything had both an imagery and a physicality, and furthermore that for me, the moment a painting took on any kind of image, the minute i could recognize it as having any relationship to nature, of any kind, to me that painting went flat...

imagery for me constituted representation, "re-presentation," a second order of reality, whereas i was after a first order of presence... it's about presence, phenomenal presence."

images    the mechanical film set of stanley kubrick's 2001: a space odyssey [sourced from wikipedia if i remember correctly]

text   seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees, by lawrence weschler. the words are spoken by artist robert irwin