La Madeleine
The worldly signs are empty; they take the place of action and thought; and they try to stand for their meaning. The signs of love are deceptive; their meaning inheres in the contradiction of what they reveal and try to conceal. The sensuous signs are truthful, but in them subsists the opposition of survival and nothingness, and their meaning is still material; it resides elsewhere. However, to the degree that we achieve art, the relation of sign and meaning becomes closer. Art is the splendid final unity of an immaterial sign and a spiritual meaning.
Gilles Deleuze. Proust and Signs.
Louis Henderson. Une Carte Postale à Marcel. 2010
Speech and Noise
Everything speaks, everything has meaning, to the degree that every speech production is assignable to the legitimate expression of a place: the earth that shapes men, the sea on which their exchanges take place, the everyday objects in which their relations can be read, the stone that retains their imprint.
Jacques Rancière. The Names of History
Louis Henderson. Horse/Cloud Transparency. 2010
CAPITAL
Its design has been based not solely on abstract aesthetic principles, or on the economics of commercial construction, or on the techniques of mass production, but on the social constitution of the community itself, with its diversity of human interests and human needs. Thus the architects and planners have avoided not only the clichés of ´high rise´ building but the dreary prisonlike order that results from forgetting the very purpose of housing and the necessities of neighbourhood living.
The architecture critic, Lewis Mumford, speaking about the Lansbury Estate, 1953.
A Girl With a Dog at Chrisp Street Market, London, May 2010.
Lansbury Dispensing Chemist, London, May 2010.
Archaeology of Mythology 
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