Motion Light

This is a model for a motion light. When a candle is put under, it will begin to move and throw a pattern of light dots that are circulating on the walls of the room.

It is indicating the sameness of the universe. How everything is a repeating pattern, if you scale it up to infinity. As Friedrich Nietzsche put it:

What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will he nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything immeasurably small or great in your life must return to you all in the same succession and sequence-even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over and over, and you with it, a dust grain of dust.

Nietsche, Friedrich: The Gay Science, 1882

So if you look into the stars, and realise each of them is a sun of an entire universe, baring thousands of planets or molecules or atoms, that might be suns to something again. Does it not make you sway and shiver in a kind of dizziness. Not knowing what it is for, why it is and where it started or ends. Maybe there lays the origin of boredom: Not knowing where to start.

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