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In the section entitled "Chemical Colors," he suggests that what is usually referred to as "mixing" or "dyeing" can be more usefully thought of as a "turning" ("von einer Seite nach der anderen wenden," "to turn over," "to turn from one side to the other"); thus, he literalizes the idea of changing colors in a way that is also possible from the perspective of English.
By positioning herself in her work simultaneously as both subject and object, author and text, Searle develops what has been a leitmotif since student days but is here articulated with much more force and yet with much more sensitivity: She literalizes the radical insufficiency of identity by devising a practice that visualizes simultaneous presence and absence, visibility and invisibility, as if she is never quite anywhere.
I would add that in many respects Pilar and her grandmother literalize the metaphor of double-consciousness because each has access to the consciousness of the other.
 
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