To Annette Vande Gorne

Figures of flexibility, in several states: the momentum, the gliding flight, the volutes. Then their deployment as gathered bundles, or sheavesfloating… Floating lines, slippery; knotted, tight lines; frictions, blowouts, relapses. These déplacements (shifts) are the plastic ear.

— François Bayle [English translation: Valérie Vivancos, xii-12]