IAIN BAXTER/IAIN BAXTER&: TRANSMITTING NOT COMPOSING
Posted: February 14, 2013
IAIN BAXTER/IAIN BAXTER&: TRANSMITTING NOT COMPOSING
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A WORD IS WORTH 1/1000TH OF A PICTURE
[Visual Sensitivity Information (VSI) – Baxter, Simon Fraser University, to the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, September 18, 1969.]
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Photo: M. Cynog Evans, “Pile of Sulphur – North Vancouver, 11.02.13.”
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“Intangible and abstruse
the bright silk of the sunlight
Pours down in manifest
splendour,
You can neither stroke
the precise word with your
hand
Nor shut it down under a
box-lid.”
– Confucius (551-479 BCE), translated by Ezra Pound (1947)
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