The figure of the soap bubble blower, taken from a painting by Chardin, is in turn inscribed in a circle, or in a soap bubble. A game of concentric circles reunites in itself different temporal dimensions... from Chardin to Paolini.
Jean Siméon Chardin, Soap Bubbles, v. 1734 Oil on canvas 24 x 24 7/8 in. (61 x 63.2 cm) Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York