A expressividade do deserto: ressonâncias estéticas

Abstract

The desert landscape has always provided artists and philosophers with countless moments of inspiration. If the desert can be defined by the absence of a dwelling, the emptiness of life, the human presence on the planet shows in disguise: desert disguise, a vertical distance that brings us away from the ground and from nature. The act of overcoming natural obstacles through technology, while excavating the planet for dwelling models, has played an important role in the development of this ground cover, giving humans the illusion of their separation and isolation from the environment. Thinking, in this sense, far from being a natural or isolated act in some mental recesses, does not act by duplicating the world in an image, through representation, but only when it is driven, when forced by something. Ultimately, this something can be associated with the world, the Earth. Through the dialogue with photographer and painter Diane Burko, this article evokes philosophical notes approaching desertic condition and thought, extracting from its image a conceptual operator able to reverberate aesthetic resonances.