Fata Morgana

Abstract

«If the point does not differ from the body, the centre from the circumference, the finite from the infinite, the maximum from the minimum, then surely we can affirm that the universe is all centre, or that the centre of the universe is for everything, and that the circumference is in no part because it is different from the centre, or even that the circumference is for everything, but the centre is not to be found because it is different from that» (Bruno 1584). If infinity is made up of infinite points, each point is also its centre. Indeed, in every “foundation myth” there is an affirmation of the centrality of a particular place. Thus the theme of the monument is interpreted here as imago mundi, or even axis mundi: it consists of a floating landing place symbolising the mending of the “archaic” and the “modern”, the “rational” and the “irrational”.