… and each day he cut out pictorial motifs from daily newspapers and magazines. He then takes up bunches of them and traces them en bloc. He first places blue tracing paper such as we all probably used at school, on white sheets of paper. The pencil then impresses the motifs onto the underlying sheet. Depending on his mood on the particular day, the tracings are more detailed or expressive or form a quite sober score. Rappenecker feels these small differences are important. For here the personal appropriation of the subject matter inverts the banality of the reproduction process. Tracing things and permitting irregularity and coincidence to play a part means the person drawing mirrors a way of approaching the flow of the images and the world across which they flit. For, or so this art sincerely asserts, we have long since bee robbed of any direct access to the world of primary corporeal experience, and the latter can no longer be conveyed to us. ...