Nivola’s whole aesthetic is underlined by environmental ethics: nature is not what man has, but what man is. Nature does not belong to us, rather, we belong to it, as to the bossom of the Great Mother. Nature is therefore sacred to Nivola, it is the true source of art. From her comes the nutriment of intuition, and the simple and true materials of a truly ontological art. In this sense, Nivola is anti-modern, a survivor of the animistic Renaissance, which professes the inseparability of subject and object, and gathers essence and truth only in its totality.