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One problem Vision has is that of articulation. Language could be much more active in articulating Vision, but the ideology of Logocentrism tends to deny and demote Vision, minimising and denigrating it. The result is that, although Language is heavily dependent upon Vision for its references in its own medium, it has not often been used to taking on the positive task of articulating the qualities of Vision. In the letters of Cezanne we see the attempt of an artist to put into words his daily struggle with expressing himself in painting and in Rilke’s letters on Cezanne we see something related, a poet trying to find ways to express the poetry of the Visual in a great painter. It is possible for language to articulate Vision, to serve Vision, and it is suggested here that would bring some balance to the role Language plays, against the tide of Logocentrism. Language serving Vision would be both appropriate and constructive, a role of which it is capable, but in which it is much less experienced than is good for Vision.

I see therefore I am.