The Ocean as Schizophrenia  ….. “…henceforth it is no longer a question of crossing a continent or an ocean from one city to the next. The fleet in being creates  …………….

Ocean Blot #1. Ink and manipulated photograph. 16in x 20in. © Anja Marais

…….the notion of displacement without destination in space and time . . . The strategic submarine has no need to go anywhere in particular; it is content, while controlling the sea, to remain invisible  ……The realization of the absolute, uninterrupted, circular voyage, since it involves neither departure or arrival . .  .

Ocean blot #3. Ink and manipulated photograph. 16in x 20in.© Anja Marais

Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics, 1986 (New York:Semiotext)pp38, 40-41, 134-135.