Growing

To question the concept of growing is to try to understand the evolutionary models of the human beings and the reality which surrounds them. The urban processes of uncontrolled growing, with all its contradictions, is an example of how the world bears the signs of an explosion which threatens to the core the quality of and the right to a life on a human dimension. The process of a city which is developing in an insane and uncontrollable way, like a monster with long tentacles, has its parallel in the organic and cancerogenous process of cells which have gone haywire in the human body. Cells which have forgotten their real function and instead of cooperating attack and mistake for the enemy what they should consider as their own. What takes place in the human body is reproduced on a planetary scale so that microcosm and macrocosm share the same natural laws and this proves how we are all part of a Whole.

The idea of growing represents a moment of confrontation on which to pause , on the mistakes produced by a certain idea of development. The search for profit and the resulting tendency towards the mental manipulation, the continuous striving to conform to false pre-constituted patterns of thought and image, are taking over the potential for creative, symbolic and humanistic growing. The growth of the human being corresponds to the evolution of Self. Such a process never proceeds by fixed pre-constituted schemes. It does not share the laws of serial reproduction and of cloning, of repetitiveness on which technique and machines are based.

When speaking of growing, birth springs to mind, or a seed which possesses the potential to bring forth all its elements. It is also true that all growth, every vital instinct is accompanied by an instinct for death. It is in the order and natural course of life. Only art aspires to immortality and to truth and distances itself from such a temporal and material vision. It is, in fact, in the very sphere of the creative process that the idea of growing as ever alive, never tainted by dark shadows, is I born.