FORMS

THE FORMS THAT I CREATED BETWEEN 1927 AND 1948 AND THAT I
  CALLED COSMIC FORMS
WERE VAST FORMS
MEANT TO ENGLOBE A MULTITUDE OF FORMS SUCH AS:
THE EGG
THE PLANETARY ORBIT
THE PATH OF THE PLANETS
THE BUD
THE HUMAN HEAD
THE BREASTS
THE SEA SHELL
THE WAVES
THE BELL.
I CONSTELLATED THESE FORMS
"ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF CHANCE."
I UNCONSCIOUSLY OBEYED A LAW THAT HAS NOW BECOME
A SUPREME LAW.
I USED THE NAME "ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF CHANCE" NAÏVELY
WITHOUT REALIZING THAT THIS WAS A LAW ENGLOBING PLANCK'S LAW
  OF CAUSE AND EFFECT.
THESE COSMIC FORMS SEEMED MUTE
BECAUSE THEIR LANGUAGE GOES BEYOND THE WAVES PERCEPTIBLE TO
  MAN.
WHEN I VISITED THE CATHEDRAL OF CHARTRES IN 1948
THE FULLNESS OF THE AUGUST GRANDEUR AND THE PERFECTION OF THE
  STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS
THAT NO ART WILL EVER MANAGE TO SURPASS
LED ME TO REFLECT ON THE LIMITS OF OUR STRENGTH
AND TO REDUCE THE REIGN OF OUR UNFOLDING.
I THUS CHOSE FROM THEN ON
MORE PRIMITIVE FORMS
PARTIALLY RECTILINEAR FORMS
THAT PERMITTED ME TO ATTRACT TO INTERCEPT TO INCLUDE MOVEMENTS
AND IDEAS APPROACHING
THE HUMAN IMAGE.

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