Vegetable Totems Project By Carolina Amoretti
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Photographer Carolina Amoretti’s ‘Vegetable Totems Project’ calls up ancient spirits and shamanistic religions. Specifically the totem is uusually an animal or other natural figure that spiritually represents a group of related people, clans or tribes. We associate totems with primitive cultures, but in the case of Carolina Amoretti, her vegetable totems may speak to Cultural Creatives fresh food lovers, vegetarians or people dreaming of retirement in Costa Rica.
“Totems are entities that remind surreal characters and masks of men and animals. There is clearly the reference to Arcimboldo and psychological studies on simple symmetrical images,” says Amoretti about the projects’ derivatives. After speaking with the artistic, we can’t wait for her next series of psychologically, engaging, artistic totems.
