about 'seeing'

To reconstruct what the eyes see in words, in an 'ideal language' is a vain exploit. Why not reconstruct one's inability to see?

To talk constantly 'about seeing' is a linguistic problem, not a visual problem. All abstract concepts are 'blind', because they do not refer back to anything that has already been seen. The 'visual' has its origin in the enigmas of blind order-which is in a word, memory.

Something always has to be sacrificed in the viewing process.Viewing entails absence, or loss; one has to die a little.

Robert Smithson meets Ann Reynolds 30 years after his death.