Remarks on mark making, marks and suggestion

To limit oneself to the suggestive power of the first mark made on a plain field and to then proceed through the growing complexity of suggested and suggesting marks to suggested and suggesting groupings of marks and then, to the suggested and suggesting final state. This is how I work.

The final state suggests its finality. The first state (the plain field) suggests a finality. The first mark suggests finality or another mark. The suggestion of finality contains the action of suggestion itself and the discrete finality of each subsequent suggested mark.

Each suggestion is a finality in itself – finalised in the mark made. The suggestion may be more or less complex, more or less precise and the realisation of the mark itself may be more or less faithful to the suggestion it realises.

The final state does not equate to a statement but, rather, to a suggestion: a suggestion itself the product of an involution of suggestion. The final state may suggest a statement but it cannot state a statement. Any suggestion of finality does not add up to a final statement.