Barthes: “The Pleasure of the text is just that: a claim lodged against the separation of the text and an insistence on the extension of erotic investment to objects of all sorts, including languages and texts”. Culler notes: “…replacement of the ‘mind’ by ‘body’ accords with Barthes’ emphasis on the materiality of the signifier as a source of pleasure”.

This idea that the signifier has a certain materiality that affords the reader pleasure as a kind of ‘body’ is precisely how I consider the signification in the objects and images I chose. I think of the object, whether it is a material object represented or in actual form, or a text, as a body that attempts to insist on a sensual investment in its signification. More literally I am interested in the role the body plays as a sensing being in reading the world of objects. How the body can be displaced into an object through the reading of its material qualities as a kind of erotic detournment.

On the heal of the devil, 2008