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Our Worlds Are at War
Ailton Krenak and Maurício Meirelles
The Amazon rainforest is a monument. A monument built over thousands of years. The ecology of that place in motion creates shapes, volumes—disperses all that beauty. The Amazon rainforest, the Atlantic coastal forest, the Serra do Mar, the Takrukkrak are monuments that have, for us, the power to open a portal that accesses other visions of the world. The forest provides this. And yet, despite its materiality—its body that can be felled, uprooted as wood—the forest is not seen. In Brazil, there are cities that UNESCO has declared the cultural patrimony of humanity. Meanwhile, we destroy the Atlantic coastal forest, the Amazon rainforest. It’s a game of illusion.
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2020
Category
Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity, Nature & Ecology, Latin America, Colonialism & Imperialism, Migration & Immigration
Subjects
Storytelling, Memory