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The traditional art of the village is distinguished into two parts: zoomorphic and anthropomorphic. These two versions approach animals and humans as ideograms,seeking to satisfy the inner world's need to identify with the external. The two forms of traditional art reflect the relationship between humans and the external world, not only at the level of observation but also of psychological embodiment. Approaching animals and humans as ideograms is a phenomenon that depicts our internal need for recognition and connection with the external world. On a psychological level, this tendency to seek ideograms of animals and humans in art represents our need for recognition and identification. Our desire to incorporate and reflect our inner world through animals and humans demonstrates our attempt to understand ourselves through external reality. The symbolic portrayal of eternity in this relationship is indicative of our timeless need for self-recognition and self-understanding. Through art, the ongoing quest for connection with the external world mirrors our interdependence with the surrounding reality, making it a way to explore, express, and reveal our soul and inner world.

Zoomorphic

Anthropomorphic

Amorphous: a journey through non-time, a journey through non-place

The village of Amorphous with a huge history behind it is now in an era of abandonment and decline, a result inextricably linked to capitalism and globalisation. The values represented by the village, with its historical ancestors who were half descendants of saints and the rest guerrilla communists who defected, no longer resonate in the modern world. 
The few jobs on offer are mostly manual - fishermen, farmers - or small businesses - hawkers, shoemakers. Over the last few decades, young people have been leaving the village, but despite its decline, there has been a slow but visible return of people to it. 
Simple people who want to live their lives in a simple way and close to nature, people who decide to start a family far away from the modern way of life choose to live in Amorphus not just as a place but as a way of life. It's kind of like a realistic utopia and the village despite its decline somehow maintains a certain culture. The historical-social context has as its basic principles the harmony with nature and the vigilance of being , in every form, both anthropomorphic and divine or biocentric. 
Amorphus, forgotten by most people now, seems to be stopped in a timeless and placelessness reality, where the imaginary of society was created by the fusion of these two different forms of culture: the tradition of the saints and the communist tradition.  Perhaps the price of decadence is high, but it still inspires people to live there.

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