Poliverso (ESTACION ESTERTOR TUMBADA UNICORNIO)(detail), 2007

4 silver wood-boxes and glass, vinyl Print
6" x 7,8" x 3,1" (each)
 

A Poliverso is a literary resource, as the Palindrome, that was elaborated by Merhi from the study and application of the Fibonacci’s sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,etc.) to language. This sequence has been employed by notable artists, architects and musicians, including Da Vinci, Dürer, Bach, and Debussy, among others. The presence of this sequence in nature is not only abundant but also inherent to every natural being and phenomenon.

A Poliverso is made out of a word that contains a verse in its syntactic structure. When a Poliverso is broken down in linguistic signs, a sequence of words that forms a sentence is obtained. For example: ANALYSIS.  When this word is divided using this procedure, the verse AN ANAL ANALYSIS is obtained. 

By means of the Poliverso, it was identified and applied, for the first time, the Fibonacci sequence to the words that enclose the Dictionary of the Spanish Real Academy (Diccionario de la Real Academia Espaņola).

Using 3 glass sheets printed with words that form a Poliverso, placed in a silver wood-box, it occurs a visual effect that unifies or fragments the sentence depending of the angle where the spectator observes the work

This technique was applied to 4 different Poliversos, in such a way that a poem can be read. A poem created using Poliversos is also called a Poliverso.