‘Let us consider a gold ring. There is a hole and this hole is just as essential to the ring as the gold is; without the gold, the ‘hole’ (which moreover, could not exist) would not be a ring, but without the hole, the gold (which would none the less exist) would not be a ring either. But if one has found atoms in the gold, it is not at all necessary to look for them in the hole. And nothing indicates that the gold and the hole are in one and the same manner (of course, what is involved is the hole as ‘hole’, and not the air which is ‘in the hole’). The hole is a nothingness that subsists (as the presence of an absence) thanks to the gold which surrounds it. Likewise, Man who is Action could be a nothingness that ‘nihilates’ in being, thanks to being which it negates.’ – Aleksandr Vladimirovič Koževnikov (also known as Alexandre Kojève), Introduction à lecture de Hegel (Gallimard, 1947, p.485)
Although it is not gold, this doughnut is a ring because of the hole. Although it is not absurd to see it as a ring, this doughnut is not a Tiffany Ring. Although it is not advisable to swallow a painting of a doughnut for breakfast, visual consumption is also very enriching - and surely more lasting. Hence, we are reminded of nothing but the sweet ending of the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s*.
This is a painting from vertical submarine’s Analogic series.
*Besides the memento – which is a cheap ring from a box of Cracker Jack – the gold-hungry Holly Golightly, the female lead character played by Audrey Hepburn, was involved in a drug ring, and blew her chance of marrying a rich businessman because of that.
*Besides the memento – which is a cheap ring from a box of Cracker Jack – the gold-hungry Holly Golightly, the female lead character played by Audrey Hepburn, was involved in a drug ring, and blew her chance of marrying a rich businessman because of that.
