So the figure takes its departure from a turn of phrase, a kind of verse, refrain, or cantillation which articulates it in the darkness.[1]
Using a non-linear, non-chronological structure, the fragments ‘figure’ an idea as a discrete yet interconnected episode. The written fragment, may refer to a visual text(s), as a kind of evocation of the idea, while operating in the realm of signifiance in opening up a range of interwoven texts (intertexts). Alternatively, it may be that the ‘image’ text explicates the written fragment.
[1] Roland Barthes, A Lovers’s Discourse, 2002 ed. (London: Vintage Books, 1978).