The egg is frequently used as a metaphor for life. The Latin pronunciation Ab ova literally means ‘from the egg’, but is often used in the idiomatic sense of ‘from the very beginning’. Ab ova also stands for a linear narrative method. In my project, the egg becomes a vulnerable metaphor for life and everything that nature brings forth and what is subject to human action.
Although in various passages of the text it seems as if a separation can be made between the events on the world stage and the Kammerspiel in the egg collection, they are inextricably linked. O is about the connection between history and nature, and man’s place in it.