Toute Révolution est un Coup de Des

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The Treachery of Images

1.To employ a calligram where are found, simultaneously present and visible, image, text, resemblance, affirmation and their common ground.
2.Then suddenly to open up, so that the calligram immediately decomposes and disappears, leaving as a trace only its own absence.
3.To allow discourse to collapse of its own weight and to acquire the visible shape of letters. Letters which, insofar as they are drawn, enter into an uncertain, indefinite relation, confused with the drawing itself – but minus any area to serve as a common ground.
4.To allow similitudes, on the other to multiply of themselves, to be born from their own vapour and to rise endlessly into an ether where they refer to nothing more than themselves.
5.To verify clearly, at the end of the operation, that the precipitate has changed colour, that it has gone from black to white, that the “This is a pipe” silently hidden in the mimetic representation has become the “This is not a pipe” of circulating similitudes.

Michel Foucault. Peindre n’est pas Affirmer. 1968