Journal of Vincentian Social Action
Journal of Vincentian Social Action
Volume 7 Issue 1
May 2023
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JOURNAL of VINCENTIAN SOCIAL ACTION
Volume 7, Issue 1 • Spring 2023
Cover Description
Forests are nothing more than a manifestation of the power and greatness that mark their trees. It is a space that invites us to demonstrate the deep willingness that all of them have to take care of and democratize each other.
The leadership of a tree makes others have their regenerative capacity, beyond their immobility and permanence, creating a model existence for other trees.
Entering a forest terrifies us but also worries us, because within it, there are fluids, signs, encounters and cooperative events being exchanged.
From the roots of the trees to their crowns, they seek the light that links and conditions them.
A forest is fundamentally a complex network of relationships, a fabric where each tree collaborates with the other, forming a kaleidoscopic mantle of symbiosis and alliances.
Whether tree or being, the meeting between each other is always transformative and inseparable from what is contained: dimensionality of its extension, the projection of its decisive collaboration and its internal synergies through its roots.
All trees turn their cooperation and knowledge into a model to be taken into account by human nature.
The forest wins the battle and the encounter with it makes it easier for us to bond more to ourselves, to cover more field and survive better.
We must become aware of what nature shows us in order to deal better with our lives.
The forest tells us that a new being is the result of the relationship of others. The leadership of a being or tree stimulates others to grow and transform into a great spirit.
Let’s start a path inside the forest to know the encounter with other walkers and link in their way of leading their survival strategies and thus not feel lost in the immensity of the thickness of the forests.
CARMEN COLOGAN. TENERIFE 2022
Translation by Carmen Collins
Cover Credits:
Carmen Cólogan
Jardines del Desierto. Alcornoque
Oil/ Graphite on wood
100 x 81 cm
Tenerife 2017
www.carmencologan.com
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