“If it can be safely assumed that all things are equal, separate, and unrelated, we are obliged to concede that they (things) can be named and described but never defined or explained. If, furthermore, we bracket-out all questions which, due to the nature of language, are undiscussible (such as why did this or that come to exist or what does it mean) it will then be possible to say that the entire being of an object, in this case an art object, is in its appearance. Things being whatever it is they happen to be, all we can know about them is derived directly from how they appear.” Mel Bochner, 1967
an object
use of a material object
not a thing
in this
or explained
or explained if
furthermore we are undiscussible
(such as
degree or extent in addition
forth comparative suffix -eron -uron
which to say that we can all be
nature of an object like (simile
in things being
of language are equal
separate an object in this or
explained or that all questions which
fourteenth century utterance not requiry
examining doubt past participle stem of action
due to them is in this
or explained or explained
or explained or all that they
appearance things being
as here a qui the face form shape or
in french to make into or face out of
language of language
of words what is said of conversation talk
manner of dialect merci mannerism
are equal but separate an object in this
explained or explained or explained
or all questions which due to their
appearance things being of
an object in this or that
all we bracket-out all we can know
about that
dark enveloped in darkness
original sense blindman's holiday
