Past shows
Nosotros
Apollo god of the sun and his children
Apollo was an important Greek god associated with the bow, music and divination. Epitome of youth and beauty, source of life and healing, patron of the arts and as brilliant and powerful as the Sun itself, Apollo was arguably the most beloved of all the gods. He was worshipped at Delphi and Delos, sites of some of Greece's most famous religious shrines.
The son of Zeus and Leto, and twin brother of Artemis, Apollo was born on the island of Delos (in Hesiod's Theogony he wields a golden sword). His mother, fearful of the vengeance of Zeus' wife Hera, had chosen the barren island of Delos as the safest refuge she could find. It is said that, upon his first taste of ambrosia, he was immediately transformed from a baby into a man. Apollo was then given his bow, made by the master craftsman of Mount Olympus, Hephaestus.
Apollo had many sons; perhaps the most famous are Orpheus and Asclepius.
Like other major divinities, Apollo had many sons; perhaps the most famous are Orpheus (who inherited his father's musical skills and became a virtuoso on the lyre or zither), Asclepius (to whom he gave his knowledge of healing and medicine) and, according to the 5th century BC tragic Euripides, the hero Ion.
Buenos Aires 2006
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Tree display case
The Cosmic Tree
The Cosmic Tree is often an inverted tree, a “reverse tree.” It represents Creation as a downward movement. The spiritual seeds of the tree are found in heaven, in the divine world, and its crown spreads over the world. It unifies the three levels of the cosmos in an “axis mundi”: Heaven (world of the gods), Earth (world of men) and underground world (world of the dead, of ketonic energies).
The Cosmic Tree is located in the center of the world, in the Omfalos. It is the central pillar, the center column, which supports the world. The tree is then placed in a sacred place. Ancient sacred places form a microcosm: a landscape of stones, waters and trees. The stone here indicates duration and represents reality par excellence, indestructibility, static. The tree, with its periodic renewal, represents the sacred power of the living; The water and the fountain represent the secret forces within the earth, the seed, the purification. This microcosmic landscape is reduced to a single essential element: the tree or sacred pillar, which symbolizes the cosmos.
Bogota 2008.
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