The old man (and) is the tree by Giorgio Tremel taken from Q9 “A man made of plastic” (2018)
“Then I said to myself, also influenced by my years passing by, why don’t we use the paradigm of the tree to talk about the brain of the elderly, therefore of their essence, of their true wealth. The experience, life experience, the traumas, the amputations, the attempts and errors, the renewal of some parts and the death of others.
If we were to give an explanation in just a few words, the focus of this Quaderno – and this article – would certainly be Trees and Plastic. Trees and plastic depicted as a story, as a poem, news or science fiction. Trees and Plastic become for the authors the mediums to talk all round of culture and the re-reading of territories, environmental emergencies and possible corrections, of human being as a sentient being but also a being made of plastic, a non-human, unaware of what he/she sees or, better still, of what he/she does not want to see.