File spoon-archives/blanchot.archive/blanchot_2000/blanchot.0004, message 19


Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:21:28 -0700
From: "Dan Mellamphy" <mellamphy-AT-philosophers.net>
Subject: Re: MB: Paint(h)ing


>
>ps: The paintings I am drawn to are strictly abstract,
>an image - to paraphrase Blanchot - that is prior to
>any object drawn from reality.
>
  Just a note, post-scripting the post-script.  An association (a connection).  Brakhage (Stanley; cinematographer/theorist), somewhat like Blanchot (Maurice; writer/theorist), has also, for a great while, been interested in painting (filming) the pre-verbal/pre-visual "prior to any object" of your above post-scriptum: something along the (abstracted) lines of that vision we perceive before opening the eyelids (this according to Stanley B).  No idea why Brakhage came to mind: perhaps merely (mirror-ly) the result of alliteration (a-literature).  In any case, there it is: il y a.

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