Juan Miguel Cubas, native of Pájara, is the author of this beautiful spiral crafted in emperador marble, the featured material of the VIII Sculpture Symposium held in the Majorero capital back in 2014. A baby grows strong and protected in what appears to be its mother's womb, which expands to form a spiral, still short for that vital cycle that barely begins for the little one. We are surrounded by spirals at all levels. Hurricanes are spirals, galaxies are spirals, snails, whirlpools, spider webs... even our DNA describes a spiral. They surround us in nature and we have made them a constant in the world of art, religion and mythology as a symbol of many things, although as an allegory of life it has been the most recurrent. Cubas's is also a metaphor, although this time carved in stone. A metaphor of our vital cycle, which begins from even before birth, when we are barely embryos in the maternal uterus, and extends until no one knows when. We are, each one of us, expanding universes. And the spiral is that path we all travel, that unpredictable and continuous chaos we call life, which makes what we were yesterday into what we are today and will be tomorrow.