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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

Shells, offer countless examples of spiral surfaces, on which, the joining lines of the successive whorls, are spiral helices. The geometry of a peacock’s tail is more aerial: “The eyes in a peacock’s spread tail are situated at the intersecting point of a double cluster of spirals, that are apparently Archimedean”

We might say that the inside of a man’s body is an assemblage of shells. Each organ has its own causality, that has already been tried out during the long centuries when nature was teaching herself to make man, with one shell or another. The function constructs its form from old models, and life, although only partial, constructs its abode the way the shellfish constructs its shell.

Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvellously insidious, subtle image of life, a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams, the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire!

Thus, in being, everything is circuitous, roundabout, recurrent, so much talk; a chaplet of sojournings, a refrain with endless verses. […] One no longer knows right away whether one is running toward the center or escaping. Thus, the spiralled being who, from outside, appears to be a well-invested center, will never reach his center.

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from Poetics of Space, released March 10, 2023

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Die Wolke art group Thessaloniki, Greece

Die Wolke Art Group is a non-profit research and development organisation dedicated to the performing arts, contemporary dance, video art, mixed media and associated technologies. Based in Thessaloniki, Greece, its chief aim is the research and development of outside-the-box multidisciplinary art, as well as its implications in the urban social context. ... more

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