Alex Colville Consider Swimmer and Sun . A haunting painting precisely because of its game of the doubled other. The swimmer's head has no existence other than that of an illusion of pure mathematics, a perspectival after-effect as the radiating centre of a liquid universe. Thus, a game of the doubled other where swimmer and sun conspire in a parody of signs to pretend that something exists, if only the illusion of naturalism. Thus lead is the parody of gold.
Air is the parody of water.
The brain is the parody of the equator. Coitus is the parody of crime. Here, there is no communication, only the floating eye as a liquid sign of the virtual body's disappearance into an optical after-effect. No social solidarity, only a virtual head moving in a liquid orbit with its fluorescent double of the twilight sun. And certainly no memory, since the silencing of the mouth intimates the suffocation of the fleshly body below the plane of the water.