Matt Mullican /// Entering the picture

"(...) The next day in recalling the experience I was very aware of the switch between him and it. He looked sad, he looked drunk, and like a homeless person. It looked great, it smelled awful, it was crusty, and its surface was peeling (it could have been made of stone). We described him and it back and forth, back and forth, just in a natural way of conversing about the experience. That himness-itness is basically the same thing that's happening with the stick figure and it's the subject-object. We always are separating the two. When someone makes a sculpture you can identify the sculpture in terms of its material or what the material is representing. This is classic. It's a really basic philosophical point. But, with the dead person and with the person, it is primo subject to say it-him, that is, object-person. Are you simply mask or are you an individual? So this is the politically supercharged kind of area (...)"