Summer in the dome
" Do you know how is Mars? It's like a toy I got for Christmas, seventy years ago. I do not know if you know it, they called kaleidoscope: bits of glass or cloth of many colors. Rose into the light and you look and gasps "Ray Bradbury
3. The home place
claims it all started above the clouds. Mark Turin was a boy when he went for the first time the cable car of Salta. The transparent capsule took him to the top and once there, looked at the sky from the highest point. Suddenly the feeling came over him that the above was prone to fantasy. I suspect that at that moment no one could have removed the certainty that he too, like when Elliott could take off on his bicycle through the stars. Time has passed since then and the habit is repeated: Watch the top, living the peak. From there look at the sky, to inhabit the sky. And beyond the sky, look and live space.
2.
Some argue that the possibility of settling on the red planet as a guarantee of survival of the species has moved from film to an instance of need next. Speculate that future generations will think of your home away from Earth, but how?
1.
rains heavily every January in northern Argentina. Today is no exception. Entered the shelter at the foot of the hill, the paintings of Mark Torino are arranged on the wall. I note with concern the revelation of a world. The images show the geography of a distant place where the mountain peaks are a vibrant red and a ferocity reminiscent of Matisse. Concentric circles are purple haze hanging around the stage. I see that some springs on the hillside afforestation, clearly the space colonists have settled. Clearing the doubts when I turn and I find the dome. These seem to be a good place to shelter in the plain red. I sense that the pipeline will guarantee the supply of water and favorable conditions for terrestrial ecosystem play a scale behind the glass.
In other works, stands a structure forming a circle around the mountain. I do not know if you have weather monitoring functions or explore the local geology but anxious to see the fluid loss in the system. Within a sort of nineteenth-century conservatory, a rock formation is suspended in the Martian night and from it a stream flowing tricolor in freefall. A kind of rock zygote appears to have yielded to the rising storm that ejects a serpentine dark waters and feeds. In one scene, like tentacles floating algae huge cut on a dark night. There is also a flat base that may have been built to return to exploration or simply observing rather than interstellar. On the left is growing a plantation home of an earthling but amazing height, beyond some down-covered peaks ... snow? At this time there is a sight to any ser humano en el exterior. La bóveda celeste marciana oscurece violentamente entre tonos cobaltos, prusias y utramarinos. Todo ocurre en una zona que oscila entre Ziggy Stardust y Caspar D. Friedrich. Una zona en donde pude contemplar los lugares que habitaremos en otros tiempos.
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Mientras me alejo del lugar el cielo se despeja y abre una inmensa noche colmada de estrellas en Salta. La corriente turbia sigue bajando con fuerza desde la cima. Comienzo a transitar el camino de regreso a casa. Rutas y autopistas desoladas se suceden. Las imágenes reunidas en Agua de Cerro persisten y provocan un verano extraordinario en el que tuve la impresión de haber regresado del futuro.
Leonel Pinola.
Febrero de 2011
