Calm in a World of Calamity

In Greek mythology Iris was the goddess of the rainbow, who rode the rainbow, a multicolored bridge from heaven to earth. In ancient times the Iris was considered a symbol of power and majesty, the three petal segments representing faith, wisdom and valour

Iris personifies the rainbow and just as the literal rainbow forms a bridge of light between sky and ground, Iris is a connection between Heaven and Earth and Us.  Iris also served as a messenger and a conveyor of water and for Van Gogh the Iris imbued calm in a world of calamity. It helped Van Gogh glimpse hope of a life for the future.

For Gino the calm imbued by the Iris is juxtaposed with a sense of impending calamity in the world, due to climate change and it's destructive forces. Gino's sees the Iris as one of the many silent witnesses of an increasing human psychosis defined and controlled by science and technology, rather than nature.

Gino senses the human psychosis deepening with its reliance on myths to offset reality.  Myths which offer hybrid worlds of  reality and belief. Scientific myths increasingly rationalise potential outcomes by praising faith in science, it will find a way to control climate change and finally interpret the meaning of life. Like Van Gogh, Gino feels to recognise reality and meaning it is important to see the world around us, rather than through manufactured myth with its mechanisms for human conditioning.   

Life Energy

Biology is a natural science which studies life with several themes that unify into a seemingly coherent field. Energy is one of these fields it transfers its quantitative property to a body or physical system. Giving life energy and motility to grow and reproduce. All organisms are made up of cells forming a narrative of life and its evolutionary process. Life is encoded in genes which transmit information unifying and giving diversity to life.  Each life is capable of regulating their wellbeing by controlling their internal environment.  Climate change is a force which can overturn this natural balance, particularly if it is too fast, too intense, or the evolutionary process finds it unmanageable. Then an extinction event will take place.   

Pellucidity

Iris shine out with a clarity of purpose, singing out with a clear and light tone its intense colours dazzle. It's baroque architecture promotes a clear and concise purpose. Attracting life, offering its environment shared rewards, a satellite of sweet note nectar. A meeting point for collaborative pollination between visitor and iris in a heavily scent filled environment. Much of which goes unnoticed but is a wonderful example of life as collaboration without commodity.