Pythagoras Adrift

I imagine an old man, both mathematician and mystic, alone at a desk that has been strapped to a raft. Oblivious to the churning waves he scribbles on, ungrounded and lost. I have appropriated symbols and structures which were designed to find 'the answers'. Removing from their context there can be no solutions or truth, just the guise of meaning. Only a shell remains, yet one I value in its balance and beauty.