vitruvian androgyne

For the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number...

A black figure with four arms, four legs and two faces stands in Leonardo's circle and square. It is the androgyne of Plato's Symposium, split in two by Zeus, the two halves always looking for each other. On 6 July 2021 I burned the work in public, and less than nine minutes later it was back under the same token number, unchanged, using a flaw in early marketplace contracts that has since been fixed. The bid of the collector survived it. For me the artwork is that chain of transactions, and the bond it made between us.

Epigraph from Plato, Symposium, the speech of Aristophanes. Thread · How I did it (French)