Spiral

At the website of the artist roman kirschner I found something that makes me remember my ideas to the installation Instants of Metamorphosis and the conversations I had this week with Luis Girão:


Still life is based on the story 'the spiral' by Italo Calvino. A mollusk without a shape is stuck to a reef some 600 million years ago. He doesn't know much about his environment except from getting some tastes out of the water that flows through his body. One day he starts to grow a colorful shell out of a fold of his slimy body. He creates a personal, visual expression. Unfortunately there is nobody around yet to see. The eye hasn't been developped yet. But he doesn't mind and starts to dream about where this adventurous act might lead to. He dives into the impossible...