The letter as a Space of Dream
a. Around the Point of Touch
...How can the fact seeing refer the technique of writing. In every form, but the ability to read and write by the blind make us think there is no direct link between them. For instance, take into consideration the contrary phenomena: those who see are not necessarily skilful. however, these examples of the absence between sight and letter is possible only historically, when there is a classic technique of writting, and we may speak both of literacy and illiteracy. Whereas, metaphysically, the link between seeing and writing is essential. You cannot write without having seen it, since the fact of seeing means you write down the seen reality. In his project called "Archetypes" Ararat performs a post historical model of writing and reading. The latter is based on a simple fact-or the possibility of such a fact to exist-illiteracy, or oblivion which is equal to this illiteracy. What is writing when it is impossible to read, and it's merely a pattern, a magical mystery which leads to enticement. The occurrence of colliding with secret sians signs can originate a tremendous psychic stimuli, which forces one to read if he or she wants to read. With his created mothel, Ararat tries to show that the urge to read can be satisfied, and that those who can see but have forgotten the letters, even if they try their best, can repeat the act of writing (or reading)through obsolete letters; thus, writing and reading them (to overcome the testing). However, this reading can be done in a special way, which absolutelly differs from classic wais of writing in a "visual" way which is only meant to be for the blind. According to Ararat, the artist can work up the technique of writing just the way a blind man can, or someone who has lost the ability to see, to work whith a touch which gives birth to tangible feelings.
In a traditional presswork, where touch means a primal act of printing, Ararat sees a model of blind-seeing. This comparision forces the artist to make all the traditional means of typography, whith his hands, and, letting them go, to reassemble actually the circle of the whole writing technique meant for the blind. When he engraves or creates matrices (archetypes,) he does nothing but repeats a blind man's writing, whereas, when he takes out of them samples of relief printing, he "makes" a kind of reading, which results in revision of boards meant for such reading...
NAZARETH KAROYAN
(Introduction To the Monograph
The Letter a Spase of Dream)
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