Abstract Nature of Absence

 
 

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?

Roland Barthes ‘Mourning Diary’

 
 

indexical drawings, gouache, charcoal pencil on wrapping tissue

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