“Light is nevertheless technological energy in the making, if it is to be controlled
by electric light, it is dressed up, where as fire is uncontrollable and naked.
Light is a comprehensible representation of the human mind, whereas flame is
incomprehensible and hence difficult to represent. So the decision to use neon
represents the possibility of mental control” Mario Merz.

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