The idea of imageless Thoughts

" The gestalt notion "figure-ground phenomenon" refers to the characteristic organization of perception into a figure that 'stands out' against an undifferentiated background. What is figural at any one moment depends on patterns of sensory stimulation and on the momentary interests of the perceiver. Poets may rely on our habitual figure-ground organisations in extra-linguistic reality to exploit our flexibility in shifting attention from one aspect to another so as to achieve certain poetic effects by inducing us to reverse the habitual figure-ground relationships."

Sam Renseiw framed a particular figure-ground relationship; From a recent CITA workshop in Copenhagen, performed by Carol B. Grounding by Mette RT, sound-cut-up overlay by Casper BC. Focus in here, or click on the figure-ground above.