Vertical poetry

Vertical poetry

Photographs 60X 80 cm

Ceramics

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Duration: 2'36 Format: MP3

Of vertical, Littré gives this definition: “Vertical line, the one followed by falling bodies. » Verticality is first of all a fall – or at least follows the direction of a fall. Let's say it's a compound fall. It is both what undergoes the attraction towards the bottom and what supports this attraction, governs it.

A body stands upright if what we call its center of gravity, a variable but relatively stable point where the forces which would otherwise cause its fall combine and compensate, keeps it in effective tension in relation to this attraction of the bottom.

Littré continues: “the force applied to the center of gravity to keep it in balance must be vertical, because, if it is oblique, there will be no balance; and sufficient, because if it is not, there will not be balance either… There is balance whenever the vertical of the center of gravity passes through the point of support or suspension. »

By the virtue of the movement, by the effect of an effective and flexible resistance to a natural downward attraction, there is sometimes this precarious moment of “it holds”.

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