Historical Analogies

• The man and woman “engaged” and bound together by the rotating interlaced rings, are turning in a somnambulistic dance.
• This is the dance of their shared life.
• The interconnected hoops symbolized life’s flow; the more they rotate, the more tightly they tie bonds and knots, weaving the invisible fabric of their amorous union.

Key Concepts:

The masks over the faces of the dancers create a carnival atmosphere with its inherent anonymity. But as is well known, the symbols of the carnival are double-faced: happiness and laughter are combines with danger and unpredictability. As a token of this unpredictability, playing cards are lining up around the dancers. The vulnerability of the lovers is recalled by their nakedness. The underlying fact is that happiness can, in a twinkling, collapse like a house of cards.