The set up from which Salvador Dalí hopes to obtain the painting, a sea urchin is placed on an overturned inkwell glass and in its mouth ("Aristotle's lantern" which has the movements of a human hand) he puts a swan’s feather or here a light dried up flower. The object is allowed to slightly touch a sheet of blackened paper. The movements then made by the sea urchin are traced on the paper. At Salvador Dalí's house, Portlligat, Cadaqués 1957.

$The set up from which Salvador Dalí hopes to obtain the painting, a sea urchin is placed on an overturned inkwell glass and in its mouth ("Aristotle\'s lantern" which has the movements of a human hand) he puts a swan’s feather or here a light dried up flower. The object is allowed to slightly touch a sheet of blackened paper. The movements then made by the sea urchin are traced on the paper. At Salvador Dalí\'s house, Portlligat, Cadaqués 1957. - Photo by Edward Quinn$

The set up from which Salvador Dalí hopes to obtain the painting, a sea urchin is placed on an overturned inkwell glass and in its mouth ("Aristotle's lantern" which has the movements of a human hand) he puts a swan’s feather or here a light dried up flower. The object is allowed to slightly touch a sheet of blackened paper. The movements then made by the sea urchin are traced on the paper. At Salvador Dalí's house, Portlligat, Cadaqués 1957.

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