2/16/2012

the abstract nature of absence


1977. November 10
Struck by the abstract nature of absence; yet it’s so painful, lacerating. Which allows me to understand abstraction somewhat better: it is absence and pain, the pain of absence - perhaps therefore love?

Mourning Dairy, Roland Barthes

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

But we cannot know how painful is pain, right?
My goodness, my money and camera was stolen~!
What a painful lesson in Dublin!! (-~-)