P O U C H U L U ' S   D E E D

Our Civilization faces a catastrophic event produced by 10.000 years of constant deforestation, 200 years of intensive pollution, 100 years of extreme experimental science and 50 years of consumerist manipulation, which is ending up in global Mass Psychosis. Earth's biological systems are not fully understood: the non-linear solar cycles of warming and hibernation that occur every 11, 70, 206 and 2.300 years can explain actual climate events. In fact, the Greenhouse Effect is mostly produced by water vapour, only a fraction by carbon dioxide, not our 'enemy' but the 'gas of life', as explained by Jacques Cousteau. Educating people to learn about Cosmos should be a priority. Indeed, we must save power and logistics, considering the logic of structures, local organic materials and passive energy. However, Marshall McLuhan anticipated that the speed of electronic information was going to catapult perception and conscience. Virtual reality is deactivating children's writing and interpreting capabilities. We got trapped in mimic information, reacting with violent binary emotions. Habitat has a fragile 'psyche'. Vertebrate and invertebrate species are in the process of physical extinction and humans move towards spiritual annihilation, attached to paganism, ugliness and violence, promoted on TV and the Internet. Like vegetables, people won't react. The so called 'social networks' are used to subtly monitor, dictating people's life, provoking fear, even altering their genetics. These are dangerous times. Art, inspired in Nature, also faces a hostile emotional habitat. We should create bike-cities and exploit resilient forests and agriculture, where feasible. Technology must be used for monitor and sustain life form systems, avoiding consumerism. Unlike Nature, we can anticipate scenarios and react. Historical and architectural principles are my guide; the nature of things, my path for understanding. To create beauty, and not chaos, is my way.

Pouchulu, 2023

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photo: late afternoon autumn sky over Primrose Hill, London, UK. Copyright © Pouchulu.