读麦讲演作为在电子时代里的继续生存的艺术（1973）007

　　A little boy, when he took his first airplane ride, said,＂Daddy, when do we start to get smaller?＂I don’t know what his daddy said on that occasion but I think he might have pauses. It took me quite a while to puzzle that one out. But I ran into a parachutist one day, and he told me that when you jump out of a plane, you are very tiny and you grow bigger and bigger as you approach the earth. There is no figure/ground relationship in visual space. The enclosed space of the airplane cabin is static. It’s visual. Visual space has very peculiar properties, ones we take for granted even though they belong only to one sense, the visual sense. Visual space is continuous, connected, homogeneous, and static. All the other senses make spaces that are quite different, totally discontinuous, non-homogenous, and dynamic, whether it’s the sense of touch, smell, hearing, kinesis, or any sense whatever. There are many spaces formed by our many senses, and all of these spaces are totally lacking in the character of visual space, which is continuous, homogenous and static. So the moment you jump out of the plane, you jump out of visual space into a live, dynamic space in which you have a figure/ground relationship. In the static, enclosed space of the cabin you have no figure/ground relationship whatever.
　　一个小男孩在他第一次坐飞机的时候说，＂爸爸，我们什么时候开始变小？＂我不知道他爸爸当时说了什么，但是我想他可能有点犹豫。我花了好长时间苦苦思索才弄清楚这一点。但是有一天我碰到一个跳伞者，他告诉我，在你跳出一架飞机的时候，你非常小，随着你接近地面，你就会变得越来越大。视觉空间中没有外观/背景关系。机舱的封闭空间是静态的。这是视觉上的。视觉空间具有一些非常独特的属性，我们将这些特性视为当然，尽管它们只属于一种感官——视觉。视觉空间是连续的、连接的、同质的和静态的。所有其余的感官形成的空间大不同，是完全不连续的、非同质的和动态的，无论是触觉、嗅觉、听觉、运动感觉或任何感觉。世上存在着许多因我们的多种感官而形成的空间，这些空间中的每一种都完全缺乏视觉空间的特性，连续性、同质性和静态。因此，在你跳出飞机的那一刻，你就从视觉空间中跳了出来，跳进了一个在现场体验到的、动态的空间，在其中你保持着一种外观/背景关系。在静态的封闭空间里，你没有任何外观/背景关系。
　　按： 视觉空间没有外观-背景关系，只有统一标准。
　　世上存在着许多因我们的多种感官而形成的空间，这些空间中的每一种都完全缺乏视觉空间的特性，连续性、同质性和静态。这可以类比为感官异次元。这是万物各有其空间的注脚。
　　跳伞是一个妙比。从没有外观-背景关系的视觉空间，一下跳进时刻保持外观-背景关系的联觉空间——在现场体验到的、动态的空间。＂现场体验＂是这种联觉空间的重要特征，也是万物各有其空间的重要特征。