Wendy Mark: Beginning with Square One

Attenuated / Broken The Pontormo Landscape referred to but not pictured here, becomes a field where there are endless permutations. Are there endless permutations / alterations to this field? The field of meaning changes from “this happened only once” to “this was my initial desire” and there was this idea, the second idea in the very next second. And then, 5 hours later, scene 4: A sequence of coming back / Ashbery’s “starting out that day, so long ago” : A record of what Derrida calls “initial Desire” from Postcards “A destination without end”. Or again, Ashbery’s “We may perhaps remain here, cautious yet free / On the edge” Addition / contrast / accumulation calls into question the solemnity of the image or the sublime; making

the image ironic, funny, within a window of limitations. It is also Dramatic and, although fugitive, insistent,

6) 7)

magnified.

Fugue-like / weight and shadow

8) Paraphrase: The paraphrase of a cloud or shockwave = equaling 9) Or aspiring to a Paterian “moment to moment,” or First sight / first love.

Pater’s “dream of a world”: “A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. . . . how shall we pass most swiftly from point to point and be present always at the focus where the great- est number of vital forces unite in their purist energy” from The Renais- sance by Walter Pater.