They also make visible the way nature itself is woven together. Take La Scala del Paradiso . Nature is the artist. Only half true. Walkers are led towards the open river, on whose ice-covered surface they can take an equally tentative foothold, surrounded by space.
Human gesture is transient.
Like a series of interlocking crosses with a living forest at its core, La Tierra del Cielo becomes a symbol of resurrection and redemption. Mauri's is an agrarian art with roots in husbandry as well as in early forms of religious expression.