I’ve seen Native American silver pieces of animals with a spiral design inside their bodies. I was told that symbol represented their life force. I began this sketch with such a spiral. I couldn’t imagine an appropriate body for this life force to inhabit, so I left it as it was. I just glanced at one of Paul Klee’s notebooks which mentioned lines, planes and points. I decide to include a planar surface which I adorned with squiggly rays, reprising to some degree the tip at the end of the spiral.

I like this design, for some reason, even if it does not have many ‘moving parts’.