VEGETAL ANIMAL
LIVIA PAOLA DI CHIARA – 2024
Contrary to the mental barrier we place between the animal and plant worlds, the Greeks define a certain continuity between humans and plants, suggested by a sort of bodily ambiguity, a fascinating interchange of forms and, in short, the close visual and objective kinship of living beings. Searching in mythical narrative and philosophy, in poetry and sculpture – each with its own strengths and language – we discover that these give voice to trees, placing before our eyes the miraculous and elusive spectacle of an interconnection and affinity between living beings that appears to us at once familiar and unthinkable.
Therefore, if we prepare our eyes and feelings, we can see that, observing such affinities more properly called proximities, everything is structured by analogies and everything converges in a single design of a gigantic living being, (hypothesis) Gaia – W. Golding – , in a continuous relationship between cosmographies of the microworld and the macroworld.