“The world is elastic, spheroidal and constantly expanding: there are several worlds, matter is multiple as if stratified. We start from a machine and arrive at the rhythms of a fig tree or the seabed; conversely, we start from the croup of a horse, the curve of a cello, a breast or a face and finally arrive at a gigantic mental mechanism. Things escape us, constantly slip through our fingers, imperceptibly, like sand; impossible to stay within the object: there are secret and contradictory transmissions, correlations, forms, primary forces, energy, upward currents, magnetic forces, motive tides, a constant back and forth; all of this moves, all of this cracks, all of this holds together and must be accounted for on this small two-dimensional surface that is the canvas.”