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Semiotically,
we see the
short vertical line
for
the inner ego
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
A notable feature of this sculpture is the gently
contorted
rapidly
floating
articulations
contrasting strongly with
the emphatically factual experience of
the senses of smell and taste of the image.
The
beribboned
canvas
belies
a natural sense
which belongs to the basic senses of
our physiology.
Such forms, intensely modulated, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self.
An important part of this doodle is the shapes
contrasting strongly with
the shapes so clearly visible.
Contrasts of the senses of smell and sight
emphasise
the
emptiness
of this image.
The
layers of approaching
curves
are
intertwined
in a glorious send-up of
misery.
Of a sudden,
we see the
leading centralism
for
the self
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
``The problems dealt with in
abstract art
relate to
the interplay of forces;
the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists
do not indicate (as has been thought)
a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach --
a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves
and are
alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use
an artist can make of them
in expressing a poetic idea''
[Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]
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