Laura Gibellini

Legame Ancestrale

It is an ancestral relationship that unites the human being with the tree. A relationship that has its roots in the beginnings of the race. The tree as a source of oxygen, food, material. The tree as a source of literary, cultural and religious inspiration. In the precariousness of its existence, man needs stability, the same stability that we can find in the strength of a centenary trunk, in the depth of its roots, in the balance of its branches. The longevity of a tree also gives biological and ideological continuity to the human race. Trees relate to each other and to every kind of living form. In the same way as human beings, they are aware of the environment in which they live, communicate by sending and receiving messages, weave relationships of friendship, are in solidarity; compete and fight between specimens of the same species and of different species; they are equipped with sight, touch and smell. They resemble us more than we are led to believe. The message at the base of the series draws its lymph from an unquestionable but all too neglected concept: “we depend on the plants, protecting them is necessary, if we want to protect man”. When a man plants a tree he plants himself.