Elegy

The word, the desert: these are the metaphors of our reality. The vast stretches of sand that weigh upon our fantasies and dreams are the repositories of celestial images. Despite the burden of that weight, music and poetry, sound and sign, reverberate through our discourse.

The flow of time, the storied phases of the human condition unfold and reveal themselves through the descriptive language of knowledge. Indeed, conviction is the work of the observer’s assuefaction to nature, which now finds itself altered by the artificiality, by the infectious tutelary frenzy of the contemporary technological climate.