Plantanimal, Three Thoughts on Alliance
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Our union with plants began with an ancient alliance of foot and soil.
The sole of the foot gave the plant its name, planta:
‘to drive in with the sole of the foot’.
La planta del pie!
The word and the act of planting were born when vision entered the soil.
We don’t name the plant, but our relation to her.
Title image:
left:
Cecilia Vicu.a
Poema Virgen del Cerro
Poem
Courtesy of the artist
right:
Unknown artist
The Virgin of the Mountain
(Pachamama)
18th century
Courtesy of Museo
de la Casa de Moneda,
Potos., Bolivia