b'JonSarkinisplayingwithhisdrawingsandwritingsasifhewerecreatinganagrams:rearangingletersinaparticularword,asiflookingforsomesecretmeaning.Hetakesusonajourneyinwhichthelinesemergingfromthepatchesofcolourseemtosuggest,atfirstsight,amultiplicityofpossibletrajectoriesandroutes.Yetthisisabovealanaestheticorganizationofalossofmeaning;the"palpable"qualitiesofthesignifieritssonority,itsmaterialformarereinforcedwheremeaningdisappears.Anditisthisdoublefunctioningasfragmentsofsystemsofmeaningontheonehandandasaestheticelementsontheotherandtheirincessantslidingbetweenthesetwolevels,whichmakesSarkinsimage-poemssoambivalentandsodesirable.BarbaraSafarovaABCDColection,Paris'