Something about the Project: Devanāgarī.

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"Why Devanāgarī?"

Devanāgarī is a concept, leaked from the Hindu conceptions, which literally means: "sacred expression." It immediately makes clear the reason why I decided to give this name to this composition of people, souls, instruments that find they're maximum sacredness in the Music, their best way to pray something ascetic, ancestral, divine. All we need to cling to something ethereal, abstract, and then make it real: it's part of the combination of strength/weakness that always damns the Human Being. Men are so weak that they need something to be strong, to prove how their apparent strenght makes something real, at least in their eyes. Whether a Christian God, a Pagan God, any philosophical ideology or simply Music. This project is the representation of purity, innocence, "literary childhood" which was mentioned in the first English Romanticism. It's the wilderness where you can run free with your mind and get lost in total denial of every system, every scheme, every rigid structure. Devanāgarī has a logo. A black and white background, connected to the Taoist philology: the good and the bad, two sides of the same coin that must find their equilibrium not in gray, but in the acceptance of both shades of life. There's a tree, then. The tree of life: turned upside down. It's said that everything, if turned upside down, gains 50% of extra beauty. And it's our way of seeing things: we turn our lives upside down, we dismantle every taboo, so that the life takes 50% of extra beauty and makes us more peaceful living, such as Birds. This is the third element: the birds. Perched on the branches of the overturned Tree of Life. They represent our essences. Birds that live, ready to fly, normally perched, defying every law of physics, to an overturned tree. Birds that obsverve, one another, as to create a symbiotic relationship between them. And then there's the "3", on which we play a lot. The "3" as the numerological significance: the perfection of things, the divination of what it represents. For us, our Music is divine and as such, if we were to describe it with a number - because the Music is also and especially mathematics - we would use the "3". A number that easily brings us to the fifth element in the logo: the infinite. What is infinite if not a horizontal "8"? It is a horizontal "8" if not a horizontal "3" mirrored with his twin? That's what we want to leak out from the allegories of our logo: that everything, synthesized, leads to infinity of everything. We are all small numbers "3" which, reflected in the mirror, find our twin, ourselves, only useful to complement one another in such a way as to make us reach infinity. Then there is the sixth element: a crescent moon. Two sides perfectly divided, connected to Taoism on which rests the whole picture, but with a difference: the moon is down, as if the sky had taken the place of the earth and the earth the place of the sky. This is because this is our way of thinking: we start from the sky to get to touch the ground, firmly; not anchore ourselves to the ground and then reach the sky if not with the eyes. You have to dream and do it wisely and courageously. Then there is the seventh element: the North Star. As you can imagine, it is our focus, our course, our safe, steady trajectory that takes us straight to the finish line. What are we, if not sailors, travelers Existence? Everyone takes a step, each flanked on the other and vice versa. Finally, there is the eighth element: the scars at the bottom image on the left. Represent us children of Art, slaves of It and lovers of life. The pain has affected everyone and everyone will come increasingly affected by the forceful hand of Destiny. But this strengthens us and helps us up, just because it's in the infinite that we reflect ourselves and in the infinite there's immortality. This is Devanāgarī... immortality of the spirit through the death of a body. It's a little miracle. - Ego.


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