Omar Khayyam

        For in and out, above, about, below,

        'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,

        Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,

        Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam

Verse XLVIII

Translated into English in 1859

by Edward FitzGerald

A Westerner and an Arab practicing geometry in the 15th century.

Realm of the Forms 2nd excerpt

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful.

Two mirrors, (60x25cm) one with mirroring removed in places.