The opacity of painting - the finger pointing to what is not there

Once the false binaries of objectivity and subjectivity, coldness and heat, non-humanity and humanity, visibility and invisibility has been put aside, it is much easier to see the differences in the types of mediation. Both are pointing at features absent from the scene of the action; both are transcendant since they designate features beyond the inscription; both are nonrealistic since they work by transforming deeply the representation; both define, with a sure skill, truth and falsity, faithfulness and betrayal. Yet, they differ completely on what they point at. In information transfer, everything is sacrificied to the maintainance of a constant that undergoes transformations and, so to speak, jumps from one medium to the next