Some raised thing

Rudolf Stingel, "Untitled (After Sam)," oil on canvas, 2005 - 2006

I know, this thing is not the most current thing. I feel that I should raise this thing, because, once this is raised, it will change other things. I can point it in the direction of things, and it will change things. It is some light cruelty, knit together as we are.

Deserted Islands

...To that question so dear to the old explorers- "which creatures live on deserted islands?"- one could only answer:  human beings live there already, but uncommon humans, they are absolutely separate, absolute creators, in short, an Idea of humanity, a prototype, a man who would almost be a god, a woman who would be a goddess, a great Amnesiac, a pure Artist, a consciousness of Earth and Ocean, an enormous hurricane, a beautiful witch, a statue from the Easter Islands.  There you have a human being who precedes itself.  Such a creature on a deserted island would be the deserted island itself, insofar as it imagines and reflects itself in the first movement....

From Desert Islands and Other Texts, 1953-1974 by Gilles Deleuze.