By Alin AVILA, Art Critic

CYB, L’éclat perçant. Afterword by Alin A Avila. Éditions Saisons de Culture, 2021.

Afterword — Alin A Avila

Who is blue, what is its name? Where does red stand? And yellow, and green — are they found in the meadow or on the retina?

This mandarin orange blends into the grass for you, the colour-blind who names them all the same.

Who lies?

Are words what lead us astray, since night erases the green of the grass, makes the orange lie as it ceases to be.

Considering the white and red of porphyry, John Locke makes this remark: Let light not shine upon it, its colour vanishes, and the Porphyry no longer produces such ideas in us. When light returns, the Porphyry once again excites in us the idea of those colours. Can one imagine that no real alteration has occurred in the Porphyry by the presence or absence of light; and that these ideas of white and red are truly in the Porphyry when exposed to light, since it is evident it has no colour in darkness?