Cosmo árvore: uma construção poética sobre os sinais da natureza

Abstract

The present study intends to investigate how a creative process can be developed from the relation between art, science and nature. The intention for this research is born from a newspaper article that reported the survival of a few aborigine tribes, after they had identified nature signs warning an approaching Tsunami. The proportion of the disaster, which has caused the death of thousands of people, still increased the unusual character of the news. It is based on such fact, that we seek to observe the relations built between human beings and nature. We use in conjunction, science and popular knowledge parameters, in order to access a research form that is placed on the borders between institutionalized and ancestral knowledge, which run away from the normative patterns, and for that, we call it magistic science. For that purpose, we propose a specific situation that consists on the observation of a particular tree, to analyze witch natural signals could be identified under the gaze of magistic science that can lead us into linkages between mystical and scientific aspect, putting into question such borders. What we found was a complex network of events that observed from a perspective of art, had brought us questions related to our senses limitations. An idea of immersion arises as a necessity to experience such events, and it becomes essential as part of the process of poetic intervention. In order to go deeper into this universe, it was necessary a cut off, which led us to identify three types of signs, divided in: signs of restraint and upwelling, both evinced through the actions of rain prophets; exobiological signs, related with the investigation of a supposed extraterrestrial biology; and signs of transcendence, which we are able to find among rituals involving plants with medicinal powers used in medical acts. We had observed and registered this entire course through notes, photographs and drawings that made possible a higher comprehension over the role that a tree plays in its ecosystem. Among the variety of the identified events, we chose to observe, the way that the dry leaves fall from the trees by means of a trail inscribed around the tree, making explicit the location of the leaves. Such resource made possible a periodic record in graphics that demonstrated the life flows of a tree based on its leaves losses. The concepts of network and complexity were used to understand the presented context. At the end, a series of drawings and images were produced as a way to translate the relations between micro and macrocosm resulting from the proposed action.