And his odious fascist politics suggest panic. Yet his art is strangely affirmative. What interests him is the process of the visible first becoming visible, before the thing seen has been given a name or acquired a value. The visible begins with light. And as soon as there is light there is shade.
All drawing is a shadow around light.
Slowly the eye registers and reads the space which the coffee pot and the jug are going to occupy. In other words, the objects Morandi paints can be bought in no flea market. They are not objects. They are places, places where some little thing is about to come into being. The infinity of becoming.