Tree of Science

THE SCIENCE TREE

"Tree of Science or Knowledge of Good and Evil"
Project of Interventions in Nature ARTE-TIERRA (Land Art).
CACM. Center for Contemporary Environmental Art. Valdelarte. Sierra de Huelva.
Curator-Director: Verónica Álvarez.
Author: Jesús Algovi.
Digital impressions in 3D ("LIBRES") and plastic flowers on cork oak.
Collaborate: Ed Weber.

The trees of paradise are two trees that appear in the Old Testament in the history of the Garden of Eden. One of them is known as the "Tree of Science" or also known as the "Tree of knowledge of good and evil" (which offered wisdom) and the other is the "Tree of life" (which offered life eternal). According to Genesis, it was forbidden for Adam and Eve to eat from the first one, and after the disobedience of the divine mandate, they are expelled to avoid that they also ate the second, equaling God. This is "original sin."
The greatest knowledge acquired was the moral capacity: 3 human beings began to judge whether the facts were good or bad (such as natural nudity) and realized the consequences of their actions (they felt shame). It also meant the arrival of mortality to humanity. The act of disobedience opened the eyes of Adam and Eve to evil. That is the religious ballast that allows that erroneous parallelism between evil and knowledge, which kept our world in darkness for so long.
A cork oak on the road "to paradise", and high technology at the service of our knowledge that makes us "FREE" ...
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