three is also the least number that can stand. nothing balances on one leg, or on two. but what stands here isn't three legs added together — it's the interval where they cross, the one thing that only appears at the count of three.

there is no two. no second ring waiting to complete a pair, no dyad that closes on itself. only the one that needs three to exist. rendered as a single body of liquid chrome, turning in real time — the borromean rings (L6a4), simplest of the brunnian links, and, it turns out, a shape three true circles can never form: somewhere one ring has to give — bend, become an ellipse — before the three can even stand.