the upper and the lower Waters

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We are forced then to accept the notion of an incessant sliding of the signified under the signifier - which Ferdinand de Saussure illustrates with an image resembling the wavy lines of the upper and the lower Waters in miniatures from manuscripts of Genesis; a double flux marked by fine streaks of rain, vertical dotted lines supposedly confining segments of correspondence.
All our experience runs counter to this linearity, which made me speak once, in one of my seminars on psychosis, of something more like 'anchoring points', [points de capiton] as a schema for taking into account the dominance of the letter in the dramatic transformation that dialogue can effect in the subject.

(Écrits. New York: Norton, 1977. 154)

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golden section/ video still

quilting point

As on a pure surface, certain points of one figure in a series refer to the points of another figure, an entire galaxy of problems with their corresponding dice throws, stories and places, a complex place, a convoluted story. Deleuze The Logic of Sense

true lover's knot

lacan's quilting point Point de capiton

insulating tape, passe partout, copper 2010

The lover's knot is entwined in the iconography of Elizabethan portraiture: an ideological portraiture which invents the subject emblazoned with its patrimony, inlaid with emblematic capital and cryptic over-connections The depicted knot appears as one thread complexly interwoven, but I found by following the drawing on the sleeve of Sir Henry Lee that in fact it can only be made with two threads. Loosely woven they present a geometrical balance, when tightened, they strangle one another.