He writes that the point here requires a larger empty space around it, allowing its sound to ‘resonate’. The larger the point and the smaller the text, the more the sound of the point is ‘audible’ and clear. At this juncture, he refers to a figure in the text. The first figure in his text (fig.2) is a point, now divorced from the sentence to which it had been attached (‘Today I am going to the cinema’). Like the ‘sample text’ above it, the text which supposedly stands apart from the first illustration is, in fact, part of the illustration: it is the relationship between the two which is being illustrated or, rather, performed. Kandinsky no longer gestures outside the text to suggest that the graphic element appears in the pure context of a blank page or canvas; outside of the text, the relations he has been describing, and thus the tensions and ambiguity created, would be lost. Instead, it is precisely the point’s relational – and thus unstable – status that intrigues Kandinsky. What is both described and performed through the passage is the tension between the textual and artistic functions of the graphic element.