Epigraph:
'...this circle which I do not form, which forms me, this coiling over of the visible upon the visible...if I was able to understand how this wave arises within me, how the visible which is yonder is simultaneously my landscape, I can understand a fortiore that elsewhere it also closes over upon itself and that here are other landscapes besides my own.'
–Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible (trans. A. Lingis)