To recall the abstraction of Pollock is to recall that his true artwork is not the final, static painting but the dynamic performance that precedes it; it is this performance that begs for a discerning audience—a watching audience—& not the multicolored canvas with its slapdash splatter of paint & frenzied feeling.Question: Who is watching Pollock? (Who is watching Lindslee?)

Answer: Himself. (Himself.)

To consider the works of Lindslee is not to recall the gestural abstraction of Pollock; or rather, to keep Pollock at the back of one’s mind & only at the back of one’s mind, insofar as it is the self who watches the self: to—watch it!—watch your distance as the Big Other watches you.

(Between stasis & movement, between process & canvas, between see & say—Lindslee.)

Instead | Depiction of motion | To get from one point in distance to another | To capture motion in a static image at once | A moment of motion | B-L-U-R | To betray both sight and speech the way the Orphists did | The way Apollinaire did with his caligrammes | Verbal tho not completely | Visual tho not completely | Moving but on a still canvas | Still but depicting movement | Abstract yet with discernible figures  Continued...