RIP Jean Baudrillard (1929 – 2007)
‘In the trompe-l’oeil, whether a mirror or a painting, we are bewitched by the spell of the missing dimension. It is the latter that establishes the space of seduction and becomes a source of vertigo. For if the divine mission of all things is to find their meaning, or to find a structure on which to base their meaning, they also seek, by virtue of a diabolical nostalgia, to lose themselves in appearances, in the seduction of their image. That is to say, they seek to unite what should be separated into a single effect of death and seduction. Narcissus.’ [Seduction, trans. Brian Singer (London, Macmilllan, 1990), p. 67.]
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