High Concept
It's the eyes in these pictures that I connect. They all appear to be looking elsewhere. My son and Temple Grandin are connected through me and through autism, and Edgar Allan Poe is connected to the other two only through me and the fact that he went to the University of Virginia - connected by place.
It is where they are looking - that space that is liminal - a threshold or a world in which they can see things we cannot that connects them through a high concept.
Ulmer quotes Lancam who says, " the gaps of the real become a kind of refuge within the universalization of knowledge for the particularity of the subject. From the gaps of the real emerges a text, like the strands of a spider's belly. By exploiting the ambiguities inherent in languages, a literary text may trace the contours of those gaps and bring out the places of singularity in which the subject may live." (Ulmer, 195)
In examining these pictures I have chosen to bridge the gap between the actual images rather than their contexts or literary texts. Two of these characters are writers, but it is their liminal minds that can be seen in their eyes.