academic work

"Then I discovered by magic (so it seemed to me then)
the wonders of a substance I knew before the world;
a fluid that occupies all spaces and never stops in one form;
which can have the strength of a mountain and yet offers no resistance
to our fragile hands that pass through it;
a good material that, when it stiffens,
it has the sweetness of becoming white like nothing else on earth
and fall from the sky, so gracefully, it seems like silk.
Only water could I have chosen as the material to transform..."
— Armando Di Nardo