The beauty of the `thing itself', abstract marks left on the page by the opaque object. The silhouette as an indexical foot print, a reference that interfaces with the black void around it. On top of this the detail interlaced throughout provides a complex over-layered tapestry of artifacts, a cloak of references to more intricate devices `where the  represented object may even disappear when the medium turns itself back on its own codes".  Here the importance of stratigraphy eclipses object. Layers reveal ages, tell-tale stories of past lives.