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The tide has flowed now and expanded. Memory has lost its intense glow, and is dimmed like a fading réverie. A strata of evocative levels co-exists in the new texture dominated by Gold, as Viola says, "psychic gold", a spiritual dimension, echoing Plotinus, not just matter. An ecstatic transition in which events and pulsations, reduced to amorphous lines, become indistinct and continuous episodes that flow across our field of vision. The portion of a Whole, an infinite, all-embracing expansion, where a comparison can be found in echoes which fade away in oscillating, flowing texture which filters crumbling memories suspended in the silent contemplation of existence. Memories beyond any eventual episode, deep in the pure spiritual flow of the palpable but breathing aureate matter. The tide still recalls the Lagoon. "Venice", says Viola, "symbolic site of a dimension of synthesis and transition, of a new spirituality we are living". (L. Viola, 1984) |
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Luigi Viola
