Perpetuum mobile
oil and graphite pencil on canvas
35 × 65 cm
It is rather telling that my “Perpetuum mobile” is drawn in pencil, while all other “Devices” are made with hardier means. This is an improvisation of an imaginary machine of the kind nobody has ever managed to make and put to work.
I correlate it with my origins on the island of Prvić, on which linguist, engineer, inventor and theologian Faust Vrančić imagined his projects, very demanding for that time and yet feasible.
(2023; from manuscript)