ERRANT HELICES

Errant Helices / Christopher Cozie and Shannon Alonzo Helix (plural, Helices). Anything of a spiral or coiled form, whether in one plane (like a watch-spring), or advancing around an axis (like a corkscrew), but more usually applied to the latter; a coil, a spiral, as an electromagnetic coil of wire, the thread of a screw, a tendril, etc. (Oxford English Dictionary) The helix form contains opposing forces. On the one hand, what provides stasis to the form is its readily recognized and therefore classifiable coiled or spiraling structure; on the other, the structure conveys dynamism, a spiraling movement away and outward, almost as if it could extend itself indefinitely.