Riccardo Arena
LuDD! The Topography of Light
Self-published — 2019
“LuDD! - The Topography of Light” is a metaphysical poem divided into 21 chapters inspired by a series of researches performed among Iran, Armenia, and Ethiopia.
Built through the interlace of biographies, scientific theories, mythologies and experiences, the story tells the creation and collapse of a Carpet warped with a sound-light yarn, originated by the sacrifice of a Primordial Taurus forced to gallop inside a particle accelerator in whose texture geometry, architecture and mirages of consciousness come to life. The carpet is a ritual cartography crossed by a solitary figure who, following a guiding river, embarks on a dissolutive journey between psyche and landscape in search of the voice that first sang the infinite creative act operating within the limits of space, time and metamorphosis of forms.
The writing constitutes the architecture of a wider project and the guide to orientate within the imaginary evocated by its formalizations: installations, lectures, conferences, and workshops are conceived as interdependent elements, whose composition intends to investigate the forces hidden in the concepts of origin, simulacrum, sacrifice, weaving and creative act involved in the vision and contemplation phenomena.