Valentina Poeta, Amalia Pellegrino
Soul in flight
Soul in flight
Nature abhorret to vacuo. According to Aristotelian philosophy, nature shuns the void, moving so that gases and liquids fill every space. For atomists, it is the opposite: the void is not simply possible, but made necessary. It becomes the ontological principle for the existence of entities. The vacuum permeates the atoms, ensuring their movement. In this story the void takes on a two-dimensional value: it is the suspension of a soul in physical and transcendent terms. Traveling by plane, an absolute condition for lifting the body, becomes a prerequisite for allowing the soul to fly free in the sky. What would happen if you embraced the void? Creative energy would be activated. In the silence of the void it would be possible to listen to thoughts more clearly, giving the critical voice the opportunity to lose itself and find itself again. We would find ourselves in archetypal truths, which belong to our essence, but which we have submerged under the crowded noises of everyday life. Embracing the void means pushing away logical and rational thought, to make room for the Pindaric flow of ideas and emotions, which, if left free to emerge, find the space to make themselves heard, with their impetuous reach. Emptiness is a condition of unexplored potential. In this tale, space is spiritually filled. The soul abandons itself, almost detaching itself from the matter of the body, escapes from the complexity of the immanent world and rises to the point of approaching nature, to remain romantically won over by its majestic beauty. The opportunity that is created is the celebration of self-rediscovery, in the pure essence of one's experience. Have a good trip.