POINTS OF RETURN
I am incredibly honored to have my work included in the beautiful and powerful international exhibition, “Points of Return,” which contemplates climate crisis, environmental issues, along with ideas for the possibility of change.
Curated after an international open call, Points of Return presets works by 25 artists that highlight some of the impacts that human actions have had on our planet and foster critical thinking about positive change. The title of the exhibition references the fact that we haven’t reached the dreaded “point of no return” – there are still opportunities for our civilisation to curb climate change and move toward a balanced and more sustainable and harmonious way of inhabiting Earth.
Points of Return brings to the surface the problematic relationship the human species has toward planet Earth and highlights how human activity, particularly since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, has induced climate breakdown. Yet, we firmly believe there are reasons for optimism. The projects exhibited show that there are multiple paths and approaches that can be taken, in order to restore the environmental balance that we have destabilised.
The online exhibition opened on the 28th of February of 2022 and can be visited at pointsofreturn.org.
“Do visionaries – artists, writers, musicians – have a responsibility to give us new languages and tools to actually do something about our deteriorating world?” — BARRY LOPEZ
Every tree a silent majestic witness, and an urgent reminder,
That we exist now and our collective future is in our own hands.
A spiral, like breath, is both radiating out and drawing inward. Infinite.
Without beginning and without end.
The root of the word ‘spiral’ comes from the Latin spirare: to breath, to inspire, to expire.
This is our earthly contract with the trees and the forests.
We only exist in togetherness.
They are breathing us.
And we are breathing them.
The choices we make now are creating the future.
TOMMOROW THERE WILL BE MORE OF US.
May we be wise. May the trees and forests still remain.
May the breath be without end. May it not spiral out of control.
May we be the path for the footsteps of our children and their children and the children of their children’s children.
The breath of the future.
May we be the miracle memory.
May we become the wise ancestors who left a natural world worthy of its future dreamers.