MAGMA MAGAZINE 05, October 2023.
This issue of Magma Magazine is dedicated to the theme of ‘Alienation’; this time Vincent Moro and Aurora Giampaoli, have decided to explore the chosen theme separately, without involving external contributors, seeking to individually, intimately, and personally delve into the essence of the alienating condition, producing a special double issue, composed of Magma Magazine n.4 and n.5. This second part of the special double issue dedicated to the theme of ‘Alienation’, has Vincent Moro as the sole author of all the contents.
This autobiographical and intimate issue of the magazine unfolds as a journey through turbulent routes that revisit past shipwrecks and sterile daily routines, revealing an existence seemingly out-of-control and inexorably elusive. Fading past lives, bittersweet family memories, lonely journeys with no return, sweaty nightmares and lucid dreams, dull daily routines like mousetraps scattered along endless deserts of jagged rocks that you can’t hold on to, but which are just fine as ballast to drag you down
“Did I build this ship to wreck? Am I alive or am I dead? I see the faces of the passengers before me, I recognize my alienation in them. Multitudes of loneliness, we all look the same when we disappear: empty spaces and fading memories. Thus vanishes the whole empire of dirt we have all built.
We mechanically retrace the paths mapped out in the lives of those who generated us; we cast their shadows, not our own.
We replicate useless routines, day after day, until there is no time left. First we become asynchronous with reality, then we become detached from it. Shielded behind the screen of our devices we restlessly wander through our beloved infinite deserts, In the vain pursuit of ourselves.”
– Vincent Moro, October 2023
Together with the previous issue of the magazine, Magma Cinque completes a beefy two-part publication, where authors Vincent Moro and Aurora Giampaoli explore the condition of ‘Alienation’ from two different yet somehow similar perspectives.
