Crisi
The true meaning of the word "crisis"
The term "crisis" sounds like a threat today, as one negative spectrum that absolutely must be removed and crushed because destructive and highly stressful.
Yet this overused word has a completely different meaning from what we usually attribute. Derives, in fact, from the greek word "Krino" which means " to separate," but more broadly to "discern, judge and evaluate."
Reflect, judge and evaluate a situation means laying the groundwork for an eventual improvement. In fact, all kinds of crises (economic, emotional, existential, mystical, etc. ..) have one thing in common: they all indicate a TRANSFORMATION. The time is, by definition, constantly in changing so in a broad sense we can say that we live always in a constant crisis, for better or for worse.
Transformation is the theme of the work "Crisis". The installation, in fact, is a symbolic representation of the selection mechanism of the moth Biston betularia of which have been cataloged two main phenotypes: the light form (called "normal") and that dark carbonaria (defined "melanic").
The name derives from the habit of this butterfly to stay on the trunks of birch, trees from the bark clear.
Thanks to a greater ability to camouflage, the phenotype predominantly was clear, due to a more effective avoidance of predators.
With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, especially in England in the eighteenth century, began to be released into the atmosphere large amounts of dark dust resulting from the combustion of coal (the main fuel of the machines of the time). In industrial areas, consequently, the barks of trees (including the birches), began to become darker due to the soot in the air. To effect to this environmental change, the melanic shape of the peppered moth (Biston betularia carbonaria) acquired an advantage mimetic compared to the light phenotype, becoming in a short time numerically dominant.
The term "crisis" sounds like a threat today, as one negative spectrum that absolutely must be removed and crushed because destructive and highly stressful.
Yet this overused word has a completely different meaning from what we usually attribute. Derives, in fact, from the greek word "Krino" which means " to separate," but more broadly to "discern, judge and evaluate."
Reflect, judge and evaluate a situation means laying the groundwork for an eventual improvement. In fact, all kinds of crises (economic, emotional, existential, mystical, etc. ..) have one thing in common: they all indicate a TRANSFORMATION. The time is, by definition, constantly in changing so in a broad sense we can say that we live always in a constant crisis, for better or for worse.
Transformation is the theme of the work "Crisis". The installation, in fact, is a symbolic representation of the selection mechanism of the moth Biston betularia of which have been cataloged two main phenotypes: the light form (called "normal") and that dark carbonaria (defined "melanic").
The name derives from the habit of this butterfly to stay on the trunks of birch, trees from the bark clear.
Thanks to a greater ability to camouflage, the phenotype predominantly was clear, due to a more effective avoidance of predators.
With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, especially in England in the eighteenth century, began to be released into the atmosphere large amounts of dark dust resulting from the combustion of coal (the main fuel of the machines of the time). In industrial areas, consequently, the barks of trees (including the birches), began to become darker due to the soot in the air. To effect to this environmental change, the melanic shape of the peppered moth (Biston betularia carbonaria) acquired an advantage mimetic compared to the light phenotype, becoming in a short time numerically dominant.
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