White

"White on White" by Kazimir Malevich (1918)

Kandinsky wrote “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”--which was about color.  Franz Kline established a b&w style of abstraction. Dreams are color blind. “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” is Oliver Sacks’ vade mecum of neurological anomalies (he was the Dr Johnson of mental disorders). White on the spectrum is the presence of all color and black is usually considered the absence. However white is a singularity—since it cites a being that is before the coordinates of time and space which the average artist attempts to navigate. Being and Time, Sein und Zeit is the Heidegger tome. Is white the ether preceding creation of all matter? “The Whiteness of the Whale” is chapter 42 of Moby Dick. Dark energy posits the universe is loosing its luminescence due to the growing distance between bodies, but besides consciousness the biggest mystery of perception is white.

read "Enjambment of Fallen Men" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

also read the review of The Wormhole Society by Francis Levy in Kirkus.