Metamorphoses Fire Engraving
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Hunting meta-mórphōsis | 2018
Digital and Traditional Art
Fire Engraving
Wood Cedar of Lebanon 300 years old
Dimensions 270 X 100 cms
“One must have the utmost respect for matter. It is the starting point. It dictates the work. It imposes it.” J. Miró. Material’s Strenght.
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Art review by Mr. Vittorio Marzotto
Art review by Prof. Alberto Giorgio Cassani
Private Art Collection Mr. Giovanni Cilenti
she said, “Father bring help! O Rivers, if you have divinity,
destroy my shape by which I’ve pleased too much, by changing [it]!”
Having barely finished the prayer, a heavy numbness seizes her limbs,
her soft breasts are girded by thin bark,
her hair grows into foliage, her arms into branches,
her foot, just now so swift, clings by sluggish roots,
her face has the top of a tree: a single splendor remains in her.
Apollo loves this one too and with a right hand placed on the
trunk feels that her heart still trembles under the new bark,
and having embraced the branches as limbs with his own arms
he gives the wood kisses, and the wood shrinks from the kisses.
The god said to her, since you can’t be my bride, at least
you will certainly be my tree! My hair(s) will always have you,
my lyres [will have you], my quivers [will have you], o Laurel;
You will be present for the Roman generals when a happy voice
will sing Triumph, and the Capitoline will see long processions;
the same most loyal guard, by the Augustan doorposts [and]
before doors you’ll stand and protect the middle of the oak garland,
and as my head is worn with unshorn hair(s),
you also, bear always the everlasting praise of your foliage!”
Apollo had finished: The Laurel nodded with her made branches
and she seemed to have shaken her treetop as though a head.
Daphne and Apollo
Ovid’s METAMORPHOSES, I