Pretzels

Ben K. Voss, Pretzola 02 , 2014, Bronze, 2 x 2½ x 1½”

The pretzel is our emblem of entanglement — a soft geometry of twists, crossings, and returns. Its looped form resembles both infinity and embrace, a knot that ties hunger to ritual, body to pattern. In the Peridot Green lexicon, it is a plant-animal-machine sigil: grain ground and baked by heat, shaped by hands, and repeated by algorithm. The pretzel’s surface glows with salt like dew or circuitry solder; its interior remains tender and unseen. To break a pretzel is to reveal its spiral logic, the same looping intelligence that binds our creative network together. It teaches that nourishment and structure can share a single curve — that to sustain, one must bend.