“
Ludwig Wittgenstein composed a photo album that features
images of the same individuals and places, over and over, in dif-
ferent configurations, on the repetitively rules pages of a note-
book. Some of the photos are identical to others in the album,
but the effect of the repetition is to undermine itself, because
each instance of each photo of each individual person or place
differs from all the other instances, not just according to the
size of each print, its placement and orientation on the page,
the mages it is combined with or precedes and follows, but also
according to the particular circumstance of the viewer’s own
relationship to the album at any given moment. As much as
the internal rhymes of the album are a catalogue of relation-
ships, relatives, relativity, they are just as much a language-free
philosophical investigation into the specificity, queerness and
solitude of all experience.
— Angus Cook, Matthew Barney, Elizabeth Peyton, Blood of Two, p. 60 (via comna)
images of the same individuals and places, over and over, in dif-
ferent configurations, on the repetitively rules pages of a note-
book. Some of the photos are identical to others in the album,
but the effect of the repetition is to undermine itself, because
each instance of each photo of each individual person or place
differs from all the other instances, not just according to the
size of each print, its placement and orientation on the page,
the mages it is combined with or precedes and follows, but also
according to the particular circumstance of the viewer’s own
relationship to the album at any given moment. As much as
the internal rhymes of the album are a catalogue of relation-
ships, relatives, relativity, they are just as much a language-free
philosophical investigation into the specificity, queerness and
solitude of all experience.
— Angus Cook, Matthew Barney, Elizabeth Peyton, Blood of Two, p. 60 (via comna)
(Source: denzilposada)
