The gaze of Juliette Binoche, star of the film Bleu ,
in a post of December 16, 2003, suggests the following…
From The Philosopher's Gaze, by David Michael Levin,
University of California Press, 1999 —
Now, the gathering of re-collection,
as a return to the opening ground,
a Rücknahme in den zu eröffnenden Grund ,
would be crucial to the transfiguration of the
figure-ground Gestalt: its release from the
disfigurements of enframing (Gestell ) and
its emergence and becoming as a gathering
of the fourfold. The opening, gathering, and
laying-down that would take place in and as
the ring of the Geviert is therefore to be
understood as entering into a figure-ground
formation, a Gestalt , that our looking and
seeing would have opened up, gathered,
and laid down by virtue of their being (or say
by virtue of their character as) a hermeneutical
re-collection of being, gathering the presencing
of the lighting, the boundless giving-to-be-hold
of the field, into the pain and the thankfulness
of memory.
A hermeneutical re-collection —
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