A survey of interactions between a surface and an image—an object, and a text; I am the surveyor.
The image is a disembodied entity, dependent on the surface for its existence—without the surface, the image would vanish; at the same time, the surface wouldn’t exist without the image. The presence of the surface is deceiving, there, yet needs to be chosen and activated as other artistic means.
A book is a surface—a physical placeholder that for millennia has been an emblematic infrastructure for the formation of civilizations, religions, and doctrines, and is thus physically marked by them.
As it appears, this doctrine of relationship does not express hierarchy of a surface over an image, or vice verse, of an image over a surface. Indeed, if we were to create syntactic affinity, which traditionally indicates hierarchy, then the surface is both an active verb and a passive object, as well as the image.
The accuracy of the interaction between a surface and an image is an epiphany; once this epiphany occurs, an endless discourse of interactions flows broadly. This is the magnitude that allows and enables the appearance of actual interactions found in human experience, such as the discourse between memory and reality, or map and territory.