Eco fetus
(For Oriol Vilapuig)


Is it that from the moment we are born we are about to die ?
Witnessing a birth shouldn’t we also already morn for the death it will mean. No, our eyes can’t stay open wide enough to embrace our history. Human feelings are of another nature than what can be understood as destiny.
We accept a lot. In fact it’s amazing how much we accept. Hence what’s happening in the world.
But there are some situations where we can’t accept any longer.
We have invented the word NO.
Whereas nature knew only Yes.
We made a step on the side and stood alone, separated from all the rest. We discovered freedom and solitude, for the best and for the worse.
As long as we are humans (and nothing can be more important to us than human lives) we won’t be in peace. Nothing will never be forever established.
It’s our task to carry our consciousness around on our soar backs.
It’s such a burden one can’t grasp how it’s possible to still keep going. As if something stronger than all that is always pushing us forward. In labour, in servitude, in war, in love.
For this force seems to have no limit. It’s the power to change things, or could we call it hope ?


Yves Berger. November 2024


Drawing by Oriol Vilapuig
Ecografia (L’escena invisible VII). 2013. Llapis color damunt paper, 76 x 56 cm