Motif

The sea

• A space of trial where civilization thins to wit and endurance.
• Faust’s last project: to master the element that will outlast him.
• Workplace, grave, and thinking surface.

Where it returns

• The Odyssey

  Homer · c. 725 BCE

• Faust

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808 / 1832

• Moby-Dick

  Herman Melville · 1851