"CAR-ONE"

I can't see how to write about drawings. A few lines about lines. Mainly, if the lines of the drawings are lines of forces. Now, how to see the real forces that are driving these lines. And again, how am I to know that the forces of the lines I shall write will mean what the lines of the drawings mean? Etc., etc., etc.—it is already a cast of lines. Next comes the play, and to see if it is a drama or a comedy, which the lines are playing for us. It is all there, in the artist's lines growing in search of us, and we shall give birth together, knowing that it is all about "US" vs. "IN" the artist!"

Matta
16th of March, 1997 Bahamas

(Letter to Matt Carone from

Roberto Matta )