Jean-Claude Coquet has long dug furrows in order to prepare the field for a phenomenological semiotics (a semiotics variously dubbed “subjectal”, “of continuity”, “continuistic”, or yet “grounded in its ‘instances’”), and his endeavour could only be… sensitive to the sensible universe. Through a number of recent works (from the 2007 work on the play of Phusis and Logos to a talk in Venice in 2010), the virtues of such an approach are articulated: what it enables us to catch a glimpse of pertaining to certain issues regarding the question of entanglement (empêtrement), what it allows us to think about other issues pertinent to the problematic of kairos, and, going forward, what needs to be thought through in order to read a given work of plain painting.