Mariner’s Maps

Broadside, Illustration

1953—06

Humans cannot live, nor live in security, unless they assume that the active struggle between earth and water is over, or at least contained. People like to call these two elements mother and father, assigning them gender roles according to the whim of their fancy. They must somehow persuade themselves that a struggle of this kind does not exist, or that it has somehow ended.

Desert Islands and Other Texts
Gilles Deleuze

Teignmouth Electron

Drydock, Illustration

1953—08

In the ideal of beginning anew there is something that precedes the beginning itself, that takes it up to deepen it and delay it in the passage of time. The desert island is the material of this something immemorial, this something most profound.

Desert Islands and Other Texts
Gilles Deleuze