…/… that immense forest of bare mountains where nature has been well stingy in sharing its gifts (D. Cerri, 1900). That’s, in fact, the feeling we have when we catch a first glimpse to the argentinian “Puna” (altiplano). But beyond the clouds and behind the apparent coldness of native people, I found an amazing wealth of raw and natural materials, transformed by ingenuous people with simple tools. Beauty is in Simplicity … this is true for relationship, art (and … […]

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From distant Patagonia to northern “Puna”, the wind is a loyal companion, sometimes painful. The wind whips the peaks, disturbs sleeping sands, pumps water from hopeless soils, tears the roofs, dries salt lakes, removes all traces of the past and produces energy. Its unconquerable generosity  is as great as its ingratitude. Wind just passes. There should be something to make of this balance. As a Hindu proverb says: “The wind purifies the road.” The Road to the Future in Argentina […]

Categories: Landscape, Preserving