Without conveying some message about itself?
Could I remove or neglect to include a message in an artwork I create?
An uninteresting object fails to communicate
but that is likely because its messages are tired or mixed
Other things, though
we may simply not have the perceptive capacity for
in the same way that we have no taste buds to detect water
Writing and speech belong to
the language of instruction, description and history
Art inhabits a different place:
the language of gesture, ambiguity and negotiation
It is the language of animals
It is impossible to be silent
in the language of gesture