Les palettes

"Displacement, metaphor, analogy: this is the beginning of a rhetoric - comparable to that which Freud sees at work in dreams - that is, a panoply of mental operations that will guide the painter's imagination." Olivier O. Olivier, Paintings

These two palettes and this brush arm are suspended from who knows what by thick wires. Without the artist's body and mind, these utensils no longer stand upright, they immediately become sterile.