The
work refers to the famous aphorism Panta rei (in ancient Greek: πάντα
ῥεῖ, "everything flows") which traditionally
identifies the thought of Heraclitus regarding the theme of becoming,
The
authorship of the aphorism is supported by Plato, who in his Cratylus
writes: «Heraclitus says" that everything moves and nothing
stands still "and comparing beings to the current of a river, he
says that" you could not enter the same river twice "».
"One cannot descend twice in the same river and one cannot touch
twice a mortal substance in the same state, but because of the
impetuosity and the speed of change it disperses and collects, comes
and goes."
However,
the inexorable and impetuous flow of time has a circularity: that is,
even in the impossibility of "bathing" twice in the same
flow, we experience categories that repeat themselves, seasons, ages,
experiences, which mark our existence, modifying, expanding or
contracting the perception of time.
Einstein's
relativism and Bergson's subjective time added complexity to the
twentieth-century vision of Time, however the evocative force of an
aphorism like that of Heraclitus does not fade, but is even more
powerful thanks to the poetic synthesis of the archetype.
I
tried to translate this archetype into an image built on the
dimension of man, "measure of all things" (just to remain
in a pre-Socratic climate).
Circularity
is suggested by a flow of human figures, young, old and children,
linked together by the human relationship: it is the relationship
that gives the coordinates of each person's existence: parenthood,
motherhood, affection, detachment, competition, love ... as in a
relay race it seems that the baton passes from one figure to another,
but in reality the image can also be read as the sequence of the
existence of the same human being, in the stages from infancy to
senility, and in its duale nature, masculine-feminine.
The
setting is a space of air and water (Sky? Sea? Clouds? Steam?)
Deliberately ambiguous because the becoming does not have a unique
form, and also the writing in ancient Greek πάντα ῥεῖ , is
about to dissolve into the element that substantiates it.
