The image on TV is a mosaic mesh—a pulsation of 
light and dark spots is projected at the viewer, and 
he is caught in a web. That is the most profoundly 
involving thing that has ever happened to people on 
this planet. There’s nothing else even approximating 
the power of that image to envelop the human 
sensibilities. The viewer closes the spaces in the 
mesh by involving himself in the TV image. This 
medium requires an involvement that creates a 
totally new audile-tactile man and woman. Instead 
of a visual detached individual, you suddenly get a 
very organic and very integral being.

Linda Sandler, “An Informal Interview with Marshall