# 4
Every image in the Alterlibrary collection is intended as a quote, an excerpt of a larger discourse. But every image also stands as a matter that could undergo a series of operations and alterations. Therefore, images are renewable sources.
Operations: Extraction and Collection. Image alteration: none.
The Variconi Oasis is A brackish pond recognized as a wetland of international importance. This particular image is uncredited and comes from the largest public archive available to humanity: an online image search. Despite the ecological significance of this wetland, very few wide-view photographs are publicly accessible. The aerial perspective in this case—almost schematic and abstract—offers a glimpse into a protected site almost looking like a geographical map.
Invitations to contemplate
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- We would ask to transform and reform the modalities of membership by which the city (cité) belongs to the state, as in a developing Europe or in international juridical structures still dominated by the inviolable rule of state sovereignty […] This should no longer be the ultimate horizon for citie …
Spaces of Coexistence in the Future, in the Past
This image has been selected as part of an image collection titled Spaces of Coexistence in the Future, in the Past, inside one of the Alterlibrary Collections, titled Ecosystem Europe.
How could we imagine alternatives to Europe as a centre of power? Where could we speak from? Could the power to define spaces for others be the ultimate expression of authority? In a landscape where humans decide the limits of coexistence, how much space do we genuinely share with other life forms? And when we set these boundaries, are we creating opportunities for mutual existence or merely controlling access to survival?
of our Imagination
