The nomad has a territory; he follows customary paths; he goes from one point to another; he is not ignorant of points. But the question is, what in nomad life is a principle and what is only a consequence. To begin with, although the points determine paths, they are strictly subordinated - the paths they determine the reverse of what happens with the sedentary.

The different internments of spaces of enclosure through which the individual passes are independent variables: each time one is supposed to start from zero, and although a common language for all these places exists, it is analogical. On the other hand, the different control mechanisms are inseparable variations, forming a system of variable geometry the language of which is numerical (which doesn’t necessarily mean binary).

Enclosures are molds, distinct castings, but controls are a modulation, like a self-deforming cast that will continuously change from one moment to the other, or like a sieve whose mesh will transmute from point to point.

The nomad space is localized and not limited. Smooth or nomad space lies between two striated spaces.

But being between also means that smooth space is controlled by the two flanks, which limit it, oppose its development, and assign it as much as possible a communicational role; or on the contrary, it means that it turns against them.

When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi reverberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters – when it contains so many services that the hardware could stand up by itself without any assistance from the house, why have a house to hold it up?

The model in question is one of becoming and heterogeneity, as opposed to the stable, the eternal, the identical, the constant. (…).One no longer goes from the straight line to its parallels, in a lamellar or laminar flow, but from curvilinear declination to the formation of spirals and vortices on an inclined plane; (…)

Wenn jemand sucht, „sagte Siddharta, „dann geschieht es leicht, dass sein Auge nur noch das Ding sieht, das er sucht, dass er nichts zu finden, nichts in sich einzulassen vermag, weil er nur immer and das Gesuchte denkt, weil er ein Ziel hat, weil er vom Ziel besessen ist. Suchen heisst: ein Ziel haben. Finden aber heisst: frei sein, offen stehen, kein Ziel haben. Du, Ehrwürdiger, bist vielleicht in der Tat ein Sucher, denn, deinem Ziel nachstrebend, siehst du manches nicht, was nah vor deinen Augen steht.

The front view doesn't allow you to predict what the rear view might look like. Sculpture is like a journey when you move around it. You have a different view when you return. The three-dimensional world is full of surprises.

Nomad:

a member of people or a tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.