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Blue pools
This work was conceived as an entirety of pools of light and
water, nested into a group of plaques that refer to the
earth element. The shape of the plaques, irregular, similar
but still different in each one, pretends to be natural
although it is artificial. Their texture resembles natural
stone, and in particular natural volcanic stone. Although
natural-looking, they incorporate human construction and
vice versa: In spite that their existence refers to the
modern world, at the same time they hide nostalgia for
nature and natural elements. The final form of the work,
thirty five plaques constituting a free circle on the ground,
is made to impose a group of swimming pools seen from high
above, like if they were some kind of artificial lakes.
Could it resemble mankind’s mania to massively reproduce
what would normally be natural? Or mankind’s mania to
display the artificial as if it were natural? Indicating
thus, the point in which our thought has penetrated the way
we perceive nature, but also the point in which nature, even
when suppressed, emerges and haunts our thought.
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