Lotus Flowers
Marco Mandrino
In the coming years our little lake will fill with lotus flowers, which we are planting these days using unconventional methods (see photo).
The lotus flower grows in the mud and then blooms on the surface of the lake. It represents authentic beauty, that is, beauty rooted in chaos and darkness which then reveals flashes of light and colour. It has nothing to do with the shiny, sterile posthuman world.
Lotus flowers too are part of our intention to focus on what is beautiful but absolutely useless, that is, alien to utilitarian purposes.
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