ABSTRACT
The prospect of drawing with Merleau-Ponty is offered as an example of how the emphasis placed on concepts by Kant and Adorno, can situate the production of art as an autonomous force in a research context. This chapter outlines the project in terms of how its concepts constellate or bear upon one another, and indicate how the focus on concepts could lead to related, alternative artworks that are autonomous in terms inspired by Kant and Adorno. It shows that attention to the elements that surround and constitute a work, including context and intention, leads to the formation of a constellation of concepts, where concepts are made to open on to objects and ideas not normally associated with them. From a philosophical perspective, there is an important relationship between autofiguration and the synaesthetic nature of embodied perception that first inspired humhyphenhum.
