A MONKEY PEELED AN ONION
‘You take an onion and peel it and peel it, right to the heart, and there's nothing there. There must be something, you believe, there must be — you take another onion and start peeling it, keep on peeling, at last, nothing... Do you understand the sadness of this monkey?’ - Osamu Dazai, from A Record of the Autumn Wind
A Monkey Peeled an Onion examines philosophical and scientific theories about nothingness, the vacuum and elementary particles. It is a work about the elusive nature of Nothing — a playful ode to the act of searching. Even, or precisely just when we will find Nothing.