Description
A Second To The Found Terminus
The earth invites to be penetrated, through gaps in which primordial forces act. To touch nature is to grasp its constantly changing force, its uncontrollable and eternal energy. From every crack you hear the constant echo of voices. There is not just one landscape, but multiple, not just physical, but mental, imaginative ones. A play of associations changes what is seen into what could be seen and, in recognising this possibility, the insufficiency of the real is realised. The voices coming from the bowels – the intestines – pulsating of the earth, emerge and manifest themselves through flashes, bright lights, unnaturally coloured, blinding those who see them. It becomes clear that what has always been sought outside, belongs instead to the core of the earth, that the light one is invited to follow, comes from its epicentre. It is, therefore, to the core and the essence that one must investigate, to which one must return.
Thus, eyes and body perceive the changing of their surroundings, hear voices and are disfigured by light. Neutralisation strips away all clothing and allows the human being to begin to become an integral part of nature. Man, now naked, recognises the power of Gaea, represented by giants with branching furrows – original tangles – guardians of the limit.
A memorandum, reminding us of the need to re-connect, to re-know ourselves and our relationship with nature; by receiving exceptional permission, the living being is allowed to be welcomed into its interstices, to cross them without being torn apart, only then will it be able to understand the immense debt it owes to it.
Deer heads, inanimate hands, are prelude and indication of the passage. The living being becomes a trace, a find, a clue. We witness the creation of a new archaeology: the archaeology of crossing, of overcoming. The logics in which man has caged nature, decay, to leave room for interconnections. What remains is, therefore, testimony to the awareness that not only the real, but also man is insufficient and that he is part of a whole, a circumstance that can no longer be ignored. There is a return to a primordial status, an invocation to become humus, part of the earth and territory, which, beyond the blanket of fog, opens up a relationship of coexistence. The traces left in the path are a warning to those who will come to understand, evolve and take account of these new directions. Here, like a snake, the living being sheds its skin, to model a new one – moulded more consciously – that comes from having observed with the eye what could have been seen.
