Quadruple Object

Quadruple Object (detail)
Pencil on paper
65cm x 50cm
© 2010 Tammy Lu

”Causation is vicarious insofar as two real or two sensual objects can not touch. Asymmetry merely addresses the other side of that story by pointing to another place where objects do in fact touch – a place where real objects meet sensual ones. Causation is buffered insofar as we meet an object that is not yet split from its own qualities, and alluring insofar as that split does eventually occur. If left unattended these quadruple structures might start to pile up like some New Age debris field. But handled skillfully, they cast repeated new light on novel various aspects of the quartet of basic structures at the core of the world.”

Graham Harman, Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics (2009)