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by LABINAC – Maria Thereza Alves
Human excessive prunings serving only the anthropocentric gaze intervenes in the carefully thought-out sinuous branchings of a tree as they maintain their balance and seek the best resources from the sun and the rain for their growth. But a body of water perceives and re-creates the tree’s joyous celebration of a free self.