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" The space is airy, warm and cool breezes alternate; it is a space within nature; it is a joint space of the heart and mind balancing. There are sounds, imprinted, continuously altering the landscape. It is alive; “instead of putting his life into his novel, as is so often maintained, he made of his very life a work for which his own book was the model.” (254) Barthes talks of Proust. There is no ending; no death, and no beginning. In Barthes’s case it takes shape in the written form; “a writing that can know no halt: life never does more than imitate the book, and the book itself is only a tissue of signs, an imitation that is lost, infinitely deferred.” (256)

It is rich with nuance and variety in the words of Zohar and Marshall. It is multidimensional. “[A]…space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture.” (Barthes, 256) It is a space of creative dialogue. It is a quantum reality both indeterminate and probabilistic. “A world of both/and…a plethora of often mutually contradictory possibilities, a spread of coexisting contradictions all equally real, all equally true, in their potentiality..” (Zohar and Marshall, 20)

It is a space between the sexes; between “man and woman, hot and cold, low and high tones, red and blue.” (Irigaray, 114) It can never be a truth of one. Therefore one, alone, cannot find the truth. It is ambiguous. Zohar quotes Asher Lev from his novel, The Gift of Asher Lev, on ambiguity, “Riddles, puzzles, double meanings, lost possibilities, the dark side of light, the light side to darkness, different perspectives on the same thing. Nothing on this whole world has only one side to it. Everything is like a kaleidoscope.” (Zohar and Marshall, 19) "

The above will be a five by seven or so foot painting on wall- medium; wall paint in specific landscape colors based on the painting above. The painting process will begin with tracing 'wants' (in the penmanship of the author) onto acetate and then projecting them onto the wall. Then words will be pushed, pulled, spread, erased creating a line which will then merge within the landscape.

An installation will accompany the painting process. Viewers will be invited to write their wants on sanded-image postcards, then asked to place it in an unnumbered male box mounted next to the painting surface. These wants will also be incorporated altering the landscape.

Process will end when mail stops coming. Surface will be sanded, cleared, cleaned.