Siamo nani sulle spalle di giganti

B.of Chartres, a twelfth-century philosopher, used to say "we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size." The aim of this image is suggesting a new reading of this aphorism. The little dinosaur toy, which represents the past, is reduced in the presence of a giant "contemporary man". The past in the picture is on the shoulders of the present, so that the past is dwarf and the present is giant. In this setting, it feels like B.of Chartres' aphorism has no longer worth, as if the present could move forward on its own, unaware of the sacrifices made by the ones of the past. The forefather became a simulacrum, an evocative puppet of something whose sense is nomore clear. Yet, in spite of appearances, the dinosaur toy seems to whisper the way in the girl's ear. ..the voice of the ones who came before us can regain its worth as irreplaceable source of progress, in a role-play between today and yesterday history which changes continously. Who's the dwarf? Who's the giant?