"They are works where the external edge crosses the surface: for example, I take a surface with six angles, I join these angles and I have a complete circle: that way, all this group of figures takes on new characteristics which no longer have anything in common with the Moebius strip, they are only folded surfaces, cut according to my imagination."

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