ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a different relationship between art and writing, one that does not ignore these differences but which reorients them. Building upon the notion that experience, to be experience, requires shaping, sculpting and slicing, it draws upon the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre to present writing as an aspect of this sculpting process. The relation between art and writing was an unwelcome profit-or-loss affair: either a slice was added to a moment or particularity was lost to generality. The perception of absence or negation creates a gap in experience, and it is because of this rupture or interval that the subject is able to become aware of itself standing before a world. The greater amount of work to be done lies with the question of how writing is accommodated in Sartre's topography of action. Writing holds a position of special significance in Sartre's philosophy precisely because it is one of the principal ways of rupturing or interrupting experience.
