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“Seeing is believing, is judging, is waging war and slaughtering, making the image a corpse and the screen a cemetery battlefield. Therefore, as Serres states ‘the eye is in the tomb’ (2007: 214). Serres urges us to quasi-blindness, Artaud to gaze upon the black sun, the reviled invisible but nonetheless sensed which God reviles (Artaud, 1988: 562). Spectator bodies without organs continue to ‘see’ with the ‘eye’ but the signification of sight alters and so does the meaning of the organ”

BASIC EXPERIENCE OF TRAUMA

And besides, what’s another bruise? What’s a bruise? What’s a bruise? What’s a blue moon bruise to do but pull young blood to and fro like the tide? What’s a bruise but a testament to the sharp art of surrendering to time and place?