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Lorenzo Poli: The Geoglyphs of Our Time
鈥淕eoglyphs are ancestral symbolic forms, etched into the ground with dry-stone lines, cleared furrows, and tamped soil. Created by Indigenous communities as ritual acts, they embody communal cosmologies across the landscape鈥攁 shared vision of the Cosmos. Often aligned with constellations or natural features鈥攁nd most legible from above鈥攖hey weave culture, Land, and the heavens.鈥�
This photographic investigation is a personal reflection on human values and how they are carved into the Earth鈥檚 body. I have traversed South America鈥檚 mining territories for fifteen months in search of meaning. As an architect expanding my practice into the realm of the visual arts, I have sought to engage with the spiritual dimensions of our epoch, immersing myself in monumental voids that descend into the Earth鈥檚 depths. From the air and from the ground, what emerged transcended the commodification of minerals for the energy transition: these voids exist as testaments to humanity鈥檚 aspirations.
The chronicles of modernity are inscribed across the Planet鈥檚 surface. Sacred Lands have become kingdoms of accumulation, empires of extraction. These new cosmotechnic terrains are the geoglyphs of our time鈥攎onuments to the values we pursue.
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鈥淕eoglyphs are ancestral symbolic forms, etched into the ground with dry-stone lines, cleared furrows, and tamped soil. Created by Indigenous communities as ritual acts, they embody communal cosmologies across the landscape鈥攁 shared vision of the Cosmos. Often aligned with constellations or natural features鈥攁nd most legible from above鈥攖hey weave culture, Land, and the heavens.鈥�
This photographic investigation is a personal reflection on human values and how they are carved into the Earth鈥檚 body. I have traversed South America鈥檚 mining territories for fifteen months in search of meaning. As an architect expanding my practice into the realm of the visual arts, I have sought to engage with the spiritual dimensions of our epoch, immersing myself in monumental voids that descend into the Earth鈥檚 depths. From the air and from the ground, what emerged transcended the commodification of minerals for the energy transition: these voids exist as testaments to humanity鈥檚 aspirations.
The chronicles of modernity are inscribed across the Planet鈥檚 surface. Sacred Lands have become kingdoms of accumulation, empires of extraction. These new cosmotechnic terrains are the geoglyphs of our time鈥攎onuments to the values we pursue.
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