Seeing remains an intrinsically subjective act
Gesture and word can be controlled, even censored. Writings remain; words, instead, fly — and with them soar the meanings one wishes to attribute to them.

The non-word, or rather the pause, is the receptacle of a silence that is only apparent. That void, an indeterminate space, dictates the rhythm of communication. The potential regressions within the interstices between words share an intuitive sense with the words themselves.

The precognition of a future event not only identifies its possibility but also intuits its physical characteristics, to the point of predicting them. Well-known, for example, are the capacities to influence atmospheric agents attributed to the Polynesian peoples, as is the ritual use of lament to soothe pain.

The power of mental action is immense, even in the definition of architectural structures. Of this space of the word, of what precedes it and what follows it, many have interpreted the general sense, but few have fully explored its possibilities.

From "Design of New Words" Seeing is subjective by Filippo Lo Presti 1989