meditation, sometimes bordering on madness, upon
repetition and difference, upon, not only, the observation
of nature (in Darboeven's case numbers), but the nature
of observation.
Giovan's meditation on time and tide is more eventful,
more turbulent than Darboeven's, but no less orderly,
possessing also, like Darboeven's graphs and charts,
a strong static stratum, that of the horizon, sometimes
higher, sometimes lower in these color photographs, but
always straight, a hard, ever present line that bisects each
image, like God dividing the earth from the firmament.
HYLAND
