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Referential contingency in painting beside itself, the scrawled names of cities lived and died in by famed and nameless, Borges for instance, visited and left, referent diverting from its pictorial ground and thoughts discrepant between denotation and image.
It serving to use its referent in the same sweep that it negates its ability to mean, expended as sign, cashed in for surface effects, a meaningfully meaningless composition making amends with the cutesy carefree whimsy of its strokes, the passing of importance, passing importance.
