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84 | Isabella Guanzini www.jrfm.eu 2017, 3/2, 79–84 jectories of thought or new ways to inhabit time and space. In any event, dra- wings also have to move desire from fragments of imagination and the detritus of memory. in this sense, Khedoori gently encourages viewers to examine more carefully her waxed surfaces, which are not saturated mentally and materially by narrations and figurations, but appear to be spread with traces and detritus from her studio floor. Leisch-Kiesl’s interesting aesthetic and philosophical analysis of toba Khe- doori’s drawings becomes an occasion to illustrate a theory of signs in which reception – the possibility of being theoretically and emotionally affected and challenged by signs – assumes a special function. The large-scale and precise yet elusive miniatures affect the vision from mark to mark, disturb any direct assumption of meaning and give rise to thought through their unexpected “semantic vibrations”.these convincing aesthetic and philosophical elements give momentum to the consideration of drawing and signs in Leisch-Kiesl’s new book and are particularly worthy of being read and discussed in contemporary academic and artistic fields.