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"Yesterday I saw a documentary
about the scorpion on TV.
It was my portrait.
I have never seen a more
solitary animal: Inside it's skin which it sheds from
time to time, within the process being horrifying
and beautiful. An enormous crust remains stopped,
still in time and the beast comes out bit by bit in
a slow process like birth. After this the beast has
a skin which is so fresh and vulnerable that it remains
immobile until the sun hardens it...
Lygia Clark, May 22nd 1969
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