ABSTRACT
The psyche creates reality every day. The living reality of the thing is there, precisely in the form in which it appears: it is the soul of the thing that is unveiled in the moment. An initiatory violence that the alchemists called mortificatio, the frequently painful disintegration of those ‘conventional images’, of those ‘literalisms’, that is needed to free the soul from being caged in an inert material, and thus to enter a ‘living reality’. An image that has at last become a form of the soul, a independent living being which has within itself a lasting potential for expression. A loss of intimacy with reality of which Giorgio Morandi too spoke, as Francesco Arcangeli recalls: ‘When Morandi says that “people no longer see”, he puts his finger on one of the fundamental manifestations of a great crisis in life, thought and custom’.
