uno... due... tre... dolce vita

Displacement and surprise, Sigmund Freud argued, are key elements in serious jokes: Put something somewhere we don’t expect to find it and you raise provocative and amusing questions. Collage inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593), the greatest visual comedian of the Italian Renaissance, who made displacement the theme of his art.

Aspetta! Gridò Max Demian

I have an invisible mark on me, like Cain, that indicates that I'm a seeker. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in at the same door. But each of us--experiments of the depths--strive toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone
(Demian - Hermann Hesse)

Un momento! Gridò Pistorius

Tutto ciò che mi avvenne dopo quel giorno fu doloroso. Ma talvolta, quando trovo la chiave scendo dentro di me, dove le visioni del destino dormono nello specchio buio...basta che mi chini sopra questo specchio per vedere la mia propria immagine....
Demian . Hermann Hesse
"sometimes when I find the key and climb deep into myself where the images of fate lie aslumber in the dark mirror, I need only bend over that dark mirror to behold my own image..."