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creatures, inseparable from their riders. Sheep, with their fear from wolves, mechanically had the same fear from the wild dog Dingo, stimulating its wolf rather


WINDThe Wind project started in 1997 at a symposium of sculpture using untraditional materials. The idea is to gather dandelion seeds from all over Bulgaria and to disseminate them throughout the world.In nature dandelion seeds are moved around by the winds and, in our case, by man using conventional means of communication and transport. My work is addressing all mankind to take advantage of nature's laws in its attempts towards globalisation. Our world is one and indivisible. Information is transferred in unknown ways from one end to of the Earth to the other (by wind, air, water circulation, birds and maybe least important by man). Information transfer and globalisation is not at all a human invention. The discovery of America has influenced the world not so much as a cultural phenomenon as a result of the collision of the two civilisations but rather due to the introduction of unknown plants into the Old World -- corn, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, etc. These have changed thoroughly the eating patterns, life style and economics of the Old World. This has always been a two-way influence. Horses, unknown to that moment to the Indians, became an integral part of their life and main medium of exchange. Silk, imported from Asia, became a crucial sign distinguishing the aristocracy from the common people. Sheep have totally changed the image of Australia. All this have changed men not so much socially but rather invisibly, unconsciously, intuitively, chemically and alchemically. Animals have generic memory. Horses keep memories from the time they have been centaurs. That is why they had such a hypnotic effect on the Indians seeing them for the first time. They perceived them exactly as mythical creatures, inseparable from their riders. Sheep, with their fear from wolves, mechanically had the same fear from the wild dog Dingo, stimulating its wolf rather than dog's nature.Plants have visual memory. Light is the most important factor to keep them alive. The light sensitive molecules of chlorophyll are the basis for recording information with the help of light. As a result of complex chemical processes under the action of light the plants increase their green mass just like the way silver nitrate ions form on the photographic plate when exposed to light.At a cellular level in the seeds of every single dandelion is encoded exactly where it has been growing, exactly when it has been raining or when there has been a butterfly or a man passing by. Plants' seeds are careers of genetic information as well as their own life experience. When mechanically moved from place to one place to another they take with them the vision of their own reality. It is this continuous exchange of information that makes the world one whole and not the overcoming of imaginary, artificially created borders and the attempts for political, socio-economic and cultural contacts.