THESIS
1 + IMAGINATION IS MAGIC
Imagination is the generative force driving evolution, perhaps as fundamental to the human species as gravity is to the physical world.
I call it magic because it is the software through which the invisible turns visible, allowing us to discover the possibilities that have yet to find form in our reality.
I summarise it as: 5D to iD , iD to 3D.
2 + IMAGINATION EXPANDS OR CONTRACTS LIFE
Everything we bring into existence expands certain possibilities while restricting others. Humanity has become really skilled at multiplying its own possibilities, often at the expense of other forms of life.
The question is not only what we are capable of imagining, but what our imagination allows to live once it has materialized.
3+ DIVERSITY IS INTELLIGENCE
Growing up in Colombia, biodiversity was always a familiar word. Eventually it found its way into my research. During an interview with forest engineer Mariana Gutiérrez, she articulated how ‘biodiversity strengthens the resilience of ecosystems, allowing them to adapt to change, withstand disturbances, and sustain life.
Might the diversity of our inner worlds similarly determine our capacity to evolve, create, and coexist?
Is the loss of biodiversity in our planet telling us something about the health of our imagination?
4+ BIODIVERSITY AND IMAGINATION
We have developed extraordinary creativity in pursuit of largely unquestioned ideas of progress: growth, extraction, productivity, and accumulation.
Perhaps the biodiversity crisis is not only a consequence of what humanity has created, but also of what it has failed to imagine.
Why have we become so comfortable imagining human progress as something that requires other forms of life to disappear? What if the disappearance of diversity in the world around us reflects a narrowing of possibilities within us?
How can imagination create more biodiversity?
5+ IMAGINE BETTER THAN THE BEST YOU KNOW
To imagine beyond the familiar is a radical act of rebellion, expanding not only the boundaries of our own minds, but those of the systems we inhabit.
We tend to imagine the future by recycling the vocabulary of the past. Even our most ambitious visions are often unconscious rearrangements of what we have lived, seen and consumed.
Perhaps originality is not merely the creation of something that has never existed before, but the capacity to recognise the limits of our own imagination and perceive possibilities that prevailing structures have made difficult to see.
Thus, the North stars of my work are:
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