Thank you, Ornella Sessa, for reviewing our artwork and for posting it on Design Dautore!

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Tino Schwanemann

Romanian duo SWARTE’s series titled One square meter of roots explores the secrets of survival of more than 70 tribes throughout the world through painting, body art and photography.

The mechanisms of vision can inform technology design, and its cognitive power can make sense of symbolic orders.  Both vision and computation are very prone to abstraction, and the trick is to get them to coincide. – Marshall McCullough

SWARTE is an open source of imagination transforming modern mental images into catchy art that can only be perceived when involving all five senses at once.

SWARTE explores tribe survival through tribal body paint art

It’s hard not to think of Gotye’s Someone that I Used to Know video when looking at these works by Romanian duo Swarte. But love, anger, and heartbreak don’t seem to be on Corina Olaru and Manuela Vulpescu’s agenda.

Talking about “One square meter of roots”

SWARTE in Romanian Press

SWARTE in Romanian Press

I would rather define the current global crisis as being basically a spiritual one as it reflects the level of conscious evolution of the human species. It is, therefore, hard to imagine that it could be resolved without a radical inner transformation of humanity on a large scale and its rise to a higher level of emotional maturity and spiritual awareness.