Cybele mourns; the people who believe in progress casted out the mistress of nature from her throne. The Great Mother, who every year awakes nature to new life out of winter numbness, has to watch helplessly as Homo Faber destroys creation. The tree, symbol of eternal life, is split and fossilized in the middle, transforms into the lifeless shape of a skyscraper. The needed water to blossom runs uselessly into the earth. Around the desert grows inexorably…
Helmut Schneider (Ed.) et al.: Pino Poggi. Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich, 1986, p. 63.