I will cherish your garden is the work created by Mya Lurgo and Luciano Maciotta for the Amsterdam Light Festival, 2016 edition.
The contents of the work – an open hand like a floating oasis, lights flashing like fireflies, fingers stretched out in luminous beams unfolded like branches, heart lines lit up and eyes awake – are a tribute to the Spirit of the Earth, whose nature and beauty we should all respectfully care for.
The garden is our planet. No one has to pollute it, not even the artist.
As welcome guests, we need to pay attention to our step/passage, so that it is harmless, in harmony and balance with what has preceded us since time immemorial. Being EcoLogical means nothing. It is not a question of logic, but of heart: ‘having a heart to cherish’.
Even today, learning humanity is everything, perhaps meditating as in the well-known ‘Karesansui’ Zen gardens: a minimalist symbol of the essential cultivation of the soul… in memory of Eden?
I will cherish your garden
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for every single petal, stem, leaf or dewdrop
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for every nest, bee or ant
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to caress earth and sky in the memory of who you are
I will cherish your garden
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for every ladybird, firefly, daisy or blade of grass
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for every seed, caterpillar in butterfly flight
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to prepare for your return
Everything awaits you, you know? So am I.
