"Davide Tolfo: I would like to start this conversation by focusing on the title of your exhibition, Daisyworld. The title references a speculative mathematical model created by James Lovelock and Andrew Watson in response to critiques of the Gaia hypothesis, which Lovelock introduced in his 1979 classic Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. Critics of the hypothesis argued that Lovelock implied a collective will among Earth’s organic and inorganic entities, working together to form a self-regulating system. To address these critiques and support the Gaia theory, Lovelock and Watson developed Daisyworld, a hypothetical planet-ecosystem inhabited by just two types of daisies—black and white. These daisies, under regular nightly rainfall, either reflected or absorbed light based on their color, keeping the planet’s surface temperature stable despite solar fluctuations."
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