With the eyes of someone who has never
physically stepped into the Amazon but
allowed herself to inhabit it from within,
Gianella charted invisible paths guided by
intuition. The forest, then, is not just a
backdrop: it becomes body, ancestral
memory, collective soul. In her words: “I
believe in projecting the soul. My surrender
was total. I floated inside it.”
The work that arises from this process is
more
than
representation;
it
is
manifestation. On her canvas, the jungle is
not depicted—it burns, it cries out, it
breathes, and it bleeds. The result is not
peace. It is truth. In the end, her art does
not give us an answer but a question
painted in silence and color:
How long will the forest endure if art—and
we—do nothing beyond simply observing?
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