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Lot Essay
‘I am not interested in the use of text as something pedagogic, that people can read, but I explore the presence of text in our lives. My idea is that a letter is like a cell, with a memory. A character in an alphabet is something so precise, developed by succeeding generations, and is the best expression of a culture. Biologically a lone cell is nothing, but together with others makes an organ or a body, and so it is with letters. Every letter retains its memory and personality even when it is working for the more complex body, the meaningful text. I think this is a beautiful metaphor for diversity. With text you can make a culture, with a culture you can do anything. This is the concept of the foundation stone: around the stone a temple is built, around the temple a city, around the city the country, the continent, the world, the universe—from the smallest to the greatest. Sculpture is a beautiful way to explore this world of ideas and energy’ (Jaume Plensa)