The mural and the muralists tell us: 
That the universe is feminist, 
That everything collaborates with everything else  and yet many of us are not ready to hear it 
That, on Earth, we are not better than anybody else 
That the land doesn’t belong to us, but we belong to the land,  as Chief Seattle said 
That we have a right to the city 
That nothing in cosmos is permanent 
That we are part of a life circle, which we keep on destroying   

Do we want life to continue without us? We need to hold on to our imagination  to be able to see the planet fully  We need to hold grief, rage and joy, at the same time Since rage can be love    

We need to comprehend poetry and architecture  not as opposites, but as joints  Poesis - is to make something out of nothing    

We need to catch up with ancestral knowledge For the benefit of the world made of sky, earth and water  

For the benefit of the observer and the observed to be entwined in ways that we are not yet ready to understand 

For all of us to be guided by "not-yet," a felt awareness of what is to come.  


This planetary painting is based on an oil painting by the artist, poet, and environmental activist Cecilia Vicuña, translated into a mural by artist and activist Coco Bergholm from the Hamburg Right to the City Gängeviertel community. 

We have used ashes from the Amazon rainforest, collected by Amazonian firefighters and donated to the environmental mural collective Cinzas da Floresta in São Paulo, which subsequently passed them on to City Curator Hamburg. 

The text brings together fragments of poems by Cecilia Vicuña and spoken words by Coco Bergholm.