Hi Andrew
Thanks for your distinction between cyclicity and transformation – it's helpful because I am interested in both here. In terms of cyclicity, rather than a 'vicious circle', trapping kind of cycle, I'm thinking more of the 'cyclicity' of time in that a pattern of events (e.g. daybreak, midday, sunset, night, or the seasons) keeps returning – but of course never exactly the same (you can never step into the same river twice). And part of the process of that repeated pattern is that the accumulation of those cycles brings very gradual transformations (I'm especially thinking of the body, and aging, here). So I'm interested in how the repetition of a process, which might seem like an endless cycle (knit yarn, unravel it, knit it again, unravel it), gradually transforms the material (body) it's worked on, and that material/body accumulates the 'memory' of all the previous cycles, until it's become something quite different (and often unexpected).
