trees surfacing

Venice is drowning. It is a sinking ship. We are drowning as we walk there, slowly. Venice was built on the trees of a whole landscape. Deforestation was the basis of its flowering, Istria is now treeless. The Venetians put the trees, crones first, in the marshlands of the lagoon. They used elm, oak and larch. These trees carry the weight of several tens of thousands of people walking through the city every day. They carry the weight of the venitian grandezza, marble, all the stone that was brought there to further build the glory of the state. Which has faded to gray.

Hey gray, we love to pilgrimage to your state. Shades of gray color the path through the city filled with restless people. Walking on restless ground, conserved trees, water corpses beautifully preserved under our feet. What are we looking for? What are we pilgrims to? Lost glamor of excess? Remembered in every spectacle of biennials, every show?

Gifting the place with overpresence of human bodies, are we ourselves the potlatch to the place.

Jupiter in Gemini square Neptune in Pisces: Dream expansion in the city of water, mercurial messenger in Scorpio looking for air. Construction of wood surfacing with the watergoat only to compost in fresh air. Waterbearer brings a new era, new stages, soon to be discovered.

#High performance is still the rule of the game, played in this drowning gray. Sinking the ship with too much weight for a tree to carry, the world as a stage just for human bodies fades after composting trees into water that washes them away in a single wave.