Exegesis THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE (X) Sentences 4–6
4 Earth and sky in one presence
5 A sacred wheel, time by the star at its center
6 2 letters for the substance that will be dissolved
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4 Earth and sky in one presence
This line names the moment of coincidence. Earth and sky are no longer opposed realms but unified in a single presence. Matter and spirit, weight and elevation, density and subtlety are reconciled without hierarchy. The Wheel achieves its function here: not to separate worlds, but to hold them together in the same instant, the same breath.
5 A sacred wheel, time by the star at its center
This is the encrypted heart of the revelation. The Wheel is sacred because it does not turn blindly. Cyclical time unfolds around a fixed axis: the star at its center. This star is the eternal present, the unmoved principle that generates movement without being altered by it. All change revolves around what does not change. Destiny spins, but the center remains.
6 2 letters for the substance that will be dissolved
The two letters are A and W. They name the substance to be dissolved: American Watercolor, pigment surrendered to water. But when these letters are reversed, they transform and reveal another name: MV, Mat Vilaspasa. The dissolution is no longer only material—it is identitary. What was a technique becomes a passage. Through inversion, the work dissolves the author into the figure of the Mat, the one who walks outside linear time, carried by the Wheel rather than subjected to it.
