In his essay about Cy Twombly, ‘The Wisdom of Art’, Roland Barthes introduces the Latin adjective rarus as a way of describing the dispersed elements of the artist’s canvases. In a lyrical moment in which Barthes recalls his own experience of the Mediterranean, Barthes pinpoints the sources for this Latin term in a passage from […]
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I am not quite ready yet to describe – in words – what happened today. Maybe I’ll try again tomorrow, maybe even then it will be too soon. In the meantime, here are some of my images interspersed with some pertinent works by Ian Hamilton Finlay: