However, this will to power, to domination, is undoubtedly latent in humanity, but manifests itself in distinct forms as we move through time across different cultures. Thus, in the lives of ancestral peoples, especially indigenous ones, we can recognize natural values in which intimacy with the environment and the affirmation of human action upon it are complementary parts of a single harmonic purpose. In this way, all creation, that is, all human work, stems from this apprehension, from the spiritual relationships that humans maintain with the external environment, constituting an indissoluble "whole," in which the created object, whatever its form, purpose, or genesis, splendidly manifests in itself the explanation and justification of its nature within human nature. From this "harmonic mode" emerged the great pyramids and rock colossi that populate the world, traversing eras to testify to the possibility of human integration with the Cosmos.
It is a "harmonic way of conceiving being," a gaze unobstructed by futile intentions, sustained by the idea of a perfect Cosmos, full of meaning, where humans are not "masters of nature," but rather a living form within it, a being manifested in a determined time and space, reflecting causes that are absolutely beyond their explanatory capacities, but which nonetheless do not subtract from the necessity of the link with their origin. We speak here of humans in a mythical time, a Universe pregnant with powers and enchantments, an infinitely vast and paradoxically complete world that harbors what is more than mere possibility and impossibility, the quintessential stage of the Human Odyssey unveiling the mysteries of this Universe in the consummation of its own destiny: to discover itself as One with everything else.
PHYSIS, from Greek, is the name that synthesizes this idea about the ultimate nature of things, that which corresponds to what is essential and immutable, and therefore, what emerges as an inevitable question to heal the contemporary mind. Otherwise, there is not even a chance of being aware of what still guides the internal sense of this movement of "becoming," that is, Life in view of itself. This is what truly confers intelligibility to actions, it is that from which we can recognize ourselves as entities in an evolutionary process, and subsequently, as agents of the consummation of this Cause of Being. To this, to PHYSIS therefore, corresponds the primary identity notion of everything that exists.
Intuitively, I recognize in this theme the link that allows transit between the ancestral cultures of Brazil and Greek philosophy - a kind of synthesis between Western intuitive reason and the creative inspiration of ancestral peoples.
If the attempt to find common factors in both worldviews seems mere rhetorical or unusual action, perhaps... and if this requires an arbitrariness that borders on senselessness from the standpoint of scientific investigation, it is because in Art this purpose finds its perfect medium, for Art is the field for the extraordinary. The terrain where seeds are already, in themselves, the tree that originated them. And in this present time, legitimate extensions of this natural constitutive action are needed, actions that advance over what is improbable and ineffable.
As St. Augustine tells us, among others: those who seek to know the ineffable must seek in an ineffable way. Mystery cannot be explained, and need not be; that is what is intended. Thus, it is in the extra-logical domain, in this indefinable field where Art is complete, that an investigation of such order can have a course free from the closed methods of instrumental reason.
This is a decision that has its burden, of course.
Why investigate such a question if there is no way to reach explicit results?
But also, why not do it?
We are thus faced with the renewal that Plato claims as the status of knowledge possible to the mind: to strip the Soul of the veil that separates it from itself as a reminiscence of the One Being it was before manifesting in time.
There is no greater question than the very need to question.
This is the true nature of the path proposed here.
BRIEF PRESENTATION OF PROJECTS THAT CONVERGED FROM THIS VISION
1987 – THE HUMAN BEING AND ITS MOVEMENTS/ TRANSCENDENTAL DANCE
1988/89 – INNER LANDSCAPE
1990/97 – CIVILIZATIONS
1998/1999 – SOUTH AMERICAN HEART
2000 – THE COLOR OF BRAZIL
2001 – PHYSIS
2001/04 – DANCE TO HOLD THE SKY
PHYSIS EXHIBITION 2003
Exhibition of watercolors conceived from the reading of philosophical texts by the Pre-Socratics. The exhibition occupied the central hall of the Department of Philosophy at the University of São Paulo and was presented by philosopher Olgária Matos. The objective of the exhibition was to make the images available to participants of the VII Research Meeting in Undergraduate Philosophy, as a parallel event: the artwork as an object of reflection on the problems of pictorial representation as valid philosophical discourse.