Michael Leyton: tension = memory storage

for me Michael Leytons ´the structure of paintings´ is one of the most intriguing and elaborate  books on painting, drawing and meaning:

 

 

 

shape - memory storage

artworks are maximal memory stores

• memory is stored only in asymmetries
• memory is erased by symmetries

• an asymmetry in the present is understood as having originated from a past symmetry
•  a symmetry in the present is understood as having always existed

• tension occurs from a present asymmetry to its past symmetry 
• tension=memory storage