Julia

OK. I'm really glad I finally got to go to the specolo. It was amazing, and it seemed like a source of finding the form, or the thing, which I'm attracted to petrified in real natural forms. The most uncanny thing I thought was the egg. They had this board onto which were posted like 9 or 10 chick eggs split open to reveal different stages of embryonic development. A few of them the membrane beneath the egg was left veiling the guts of the egg--formally, it was like the whole tea bag thing--guts inside a membrane.
I know this is just complicating things, but I feel like another important part of the whole concept is that that little, compact thing itself is within another vessel. The egg, the tea bag, the cell, the organelle, the organ, the baby, they float ambiently in this matrix, or liquid, and that's really the catch that makes it so fascinating. The exchange of something from within the little protected lysosome with the bigger (yet still contained) space Outside.
I guess if I had to boil it down it would be the movement of the object (dispersal of tea, movement of object within space...) exposure (tea bags dissected evoke exposed guts, something outside of its membrane, wrong), and, well, obviously, containment.
I guess I'm still working it out.