The Circle is the Infinitive.

It exists before I draw it, or even think of it. It is the Mother Image - hovering above. From it forms emerge.

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Where is the origin of the circle / where is the origin of my knowledge of the circle? Are these two, or in fact one and the same 'thing' or 'event'? Does the knowledge of a circle require the knowledge of any other thing / does its existence depend on things? Is it in itself entirely free from sensual perception / what is the relationship between the idea of the circle and my senses?  In how far is it founded in the material world? Is a circle the origin or the result of movement? Has the idea of the circle got a physical foundation / is its existence linked to gravity? Is there a borderline between the idea of a thing in the context of my thought and an object in the context of reality? Did I learn of the circle's existence? Did I discover it by experience? Perhaps by seeing the moon as a child?  When as children for the first time we draw a human being - we draw a line which closes in on itself / a circle from which four lines emerge - but how do we find this circle? Do we 'simply' intuitively know?  "An a priori intuitive idea the origin of which cannot be established through reason."- ? Can the thought of a circle itself be called an experience?  Does the idea of the circle emerge individually / does it form part of our 'collective consciousness' / does the centre of the circle represent the 'Self' (C.G. Jung) ? Both, Jung and the quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli, sought to understand the link between the physical world and the psyche; Pauli likened the nucleus of an atom with the Self ("the totality of the psychic, as the conscious plus the unconscious").

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Carving is to offer the circle from within and without to all of my senses, to show it to and to involve my whole being; to run it through my body, my thoughts, language and knowledge, my emotions. When I carve and pulverised wood fills the air that I breathe, gritting my teeth, I am inside the wood,  I am inside the Circle.