30 September 2025
More Jasper Johns from Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (1996), in which he discusses his interest in “...Leonardo's idea ('Therefore, O painter, do not surround your bodies with lines...') that the boundary of a body is neither a part of the enclosed body nor a part of the surrounding atmosphere.” I take this to be related to something Johns mentions later in his sketchbook notes (1965), which is the avoidance of working in such a way that one “knows the results.” Assumptions and existing knowledge of simple/surface conceptions/perceptions as hinderances on a process meant to aim toward expansion and enrichment.