What is lightness for you?
"A boy as light as a butterfly frees himself and steps away from a heavy, gnarled hand. He slips through his fingers and hovers nimbly in the void."
Lightness is a method: the agility and the ability to eliminate the excesses that, instead of supporting us, make us sink.
In Six memos for the next millenium, Calvino clarifies that lightness can be "an antidote to the petrification of the world and its opacity", therefore lightness as lightening, agility, simplification, levity. Lightness as a talisman to carry with you every day, to face the inevitable grayness of life.
“In moments when the human realm seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into another space. I'm not talking about escapes into dreams or the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, I have to look at the world with another perspective, another logic, other methods of knowledge and verification. The images of lightness that I seek must not allow themselves to be dissolved like dreams by the reality of the present and the future.” Lightness, therefore, not as superficiality, but as method, logic, reaction to the weight of living.
This is my submission for CoseBelle.festival contest 2024
And here's the sketch + an alternative :)
