"Beauty, when it emerges, is a tautology. The perfect object refers only to itself.(5) It becomes impenetrable. What it shows is what it means, and it only means what it shows.(6) Within the short-circuit of sense the idea of perfection is mediated. The tautological self-reference makes the search for meaning endless and awakens, through futility, the feeling of meaning as process whose end demands arbitrariness. The tautology of beauty thwarts answers. In this way, the work is drafted: it is a question.(7)"


james lee byars
&
dries van noten



brought to my attention by Lauren Spencer King via I'm Revolting

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