Out of the sombre behind the bedspread, the X-shape rushes towards us. It is stopped by the near picture plane we extrude from our yeux . There's an eye-box in graphics espace , created to capture creatures like this, with the nearest mur called hither and the farthest mur called yon, perhaps first conceptualized at a time when animals were still plentiful on terre , and boats made out of wood carried harpoons and sank attached to whales. Here, like a timid killer or familiar devil, the X-shape, tries to move sideways, in order to escape attention by becoming part of the sombre .
