»ASYMTOTE«

In mathematics, the term ‘asymptote’ (from the Greek asýmptotos, ‘not touching’) refers, in simple terms, to a curve of a specific shape that ‘approaches arbitrarily closely’ a given curve as a limit process. Curves are, in a sense, ‘one-dimensional’ subsets of a space. Such curves are representations of paths, spaces and graphs in constantly changing functions. If a curve ‘hugs’ a straight line, that straight line is called an asymptote.

An asymptote of such a curve ‘k’ is a straight line ‘g’ that ‘approaches the curve arbitrarily closely at infinity’. A metaphor for the interaction between nature, humanity and the man-made ‘straight’ urban living spaces that, on the one hand, sustain our lives and, at the same time, represent the creeping destruction of our very selves – a paradox – beautiful, unreal and yet real. Man becomes a straight line and the straight line becomes human.

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