BETWEEN GARDENS AND SHADOWS

“Sometimes I feel that reality is less a fixed place and more a play of light. I catch myself watching shadows, interpreting silhouettes, believing that what I perceive is the real thing. Yet when I dare to switch off the light, I realize that darkness is not always an absence, but a doorway. In the dimness another kind of perception appears—more honest, more bare, more truly mine.

I think of the Garden of Eden as a symbol of origin, of purity, of longing. But I also think of the garden of forking paths—Borges’ garden, yes—where every decision creates a new world. And I understand that between those two gardens—the mythical one and the literary one—there I am, walking my own inner paths: sometimes trying to return to innocence, other times choosing among infinite possibilities.

Reality, for me, is a delicate mixture of what I see and what I interpret, of what I feel and what I am able to name. There is no single reality, but rather a web of paths that cross, touch, repeat themselves, and reinvent one another. Sometimes I want to remain in the light, because it is simple and clear. But at other times I need to step into my own cave to discover which shadows are still old projections, which beliefs no longer belong to me, and which illusions still sustain me.

Perhaps reality is simply this: the precise point where my steps, my doubts, and my intuitions meet. And in that meeting, moment by moment, I keep creating the world in which I live.”

“This piece arises from a dialogue between classical philosophy and the fantastic narrative tradition of the Río de la Plata. Inspired by Plato’s cave and the geometry of Borges’ paths, it explores the subjectivity of perception and the construction of identity through the choices we make.

It is an invitation to walk those inner paths where twilight is not absence but a doorway to a more honest truth. A personal journey to discover which shadows are projections of the past and which lights guide us today as we create our own world.

What truths appear along your own paths when you dare to look beyond the obvious?..

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