Vesper No. 6 | Magic | Spring-Summer 2022
Franco Purini
Waiting for a
little magic
The word
‘magic’ has more than one meaning. Within an approximate and
limited list it defines something impossible and extraordinarily surprising
that comes to pass; the transformation of an unlikely potential into an action;
a mystery that has been haunting us over time which suddenly becomes
clear; a fabled world we have dreamed of and desired that physically
manifests itself, like the magic realism of Massimo Bontempelli.
As far as I am
concerned, I see the strongest, most lasting and therefore decisive embodiment
of magic in metamorphosis, that is, in the relentless mutations of both
living and non-living entities, the latter seemingly unchangeable. Ovid’s
greatest work reveals precisely that the constant change in all aspects of the
world, including the human aspects, is the principle that allows the world to
express itself in time. Or better still, that which we call time is
indeed the metamorphosis, an ideal but also concrete succession of
transformations that make life an immeasurable and multidimensional
intersection of events and successive changes that make all and each one of us
into as many animated labyrinths. Mobile labyrinths moving within a
series of stable labyrinths, ever larger, on a boundless journey, fascinated by
that which is unfinished.
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