My work is a chronicle or documentation of the construction process, "progress," decay, " repetition, or revival of the "utopian" social-political processes derived from the ideals that led to the French Revolution and its consequent Jacobin Terror. There is a reference to the circus either directly-through archetypes as the clown- or indirectly in the form of behaviors that often simulate circus performances. They become parables of totalitarian regimes and real socialism.
I have perceived the circus as a parable of historical reality.
Hence I have used it as a form of satire or to recreate reality. The circular track and closed condition of the circus and the repeated vicissitudes in a show have some level of identity with the notion of "eternal return" and
