Saint James Path
Autum 2008
November 5th 2008
The great day of exhume the santiago’s pictures arrived, at the patio of the geografy and history university.
Elias Torres Feijo – Vice-Reitor de Cultura, me and Carlos Calhom the Via Galego Foundation’s president) at Mount of Gozo and in Villafranca del Bierzo. At last My work was at last done.
I made this all with great commotin and i’d like to thank to all of you that has helped me in this work – so many people that i’m affraid to forget somoene, by telling names.
I’d like to thank Santiago, whom gave us this inspiration.
More that two years of travellings at the santiago’s path have passed. I have to thank for the virgin mary for the protection, cause i have experienced magical moments there, of communion with the nature, of distress when some problems appeared to us (like the transport of painitngs that didn’t fit at any car or van, some interview where i should explain well the purposes of my work or even when the time was too short to all activities i should carry on).
But i always has friendly hands to help me.
The path never ends, he is the starting point of many painitngs that will be spread all over the world.
Mine is the pilgrims' way.
On the 3rd october, we were in Puente la Reina to exhume three pictures that were in Eunate, since may..
Then we exhumed the cooper plate that i had left there also in may, just behind the Hotel El Peregrinom at entrance of Puente la Reina.
The pilgrims that were passing by looked at the scene with cautinon.
One more stage accomplish.
Then we follow to the Ponferrada exposition.
We arrived at Villafranca del Bierzo as the sun was downing. Jato started to choose where would be the best place to bury te “heart”. He took his magic wand and started to walk slowly. Whenever his wand moved above it would indicates the best place for the burial. He did that in many directions.
The “heart”.
Jato dig, splitting the soil, from the rocks till the thinner grain soil. There, on the water’s veil that came from the santiago’s church altar, i placed my painting, with golden pigment.
And the grains of soil were put in many layers, from the thinner to the rocks.
The “heart” was let there.
Just before, Marcelo arrived from Santiago and Jato prepared a delicious dinner.
Jato opened a champagne bottle and we toasted to Santiago.
October 1st 2008
My arrival in st jacques signed that the pilgrimage of mixing my paintings with nature was done. But in some way i was not completely satisfied, and i knew that the process wasn’t really finished yet.
Recalling my 1990’s pilgimage, and also the other many times i went to the santiago’s path along my husband, i rememberd that somewhere else was missing to accomplish my journey.
Villafranca del Bierzo, such an emblematic place, where the santiago’s church is placed, a romantic building of the year 1186, with the north portal built with four arches with a scuptural decoration called “forgiveness gate”. The pilgrims that wasn’t able to accomplish the path received the same indulgency, as if they had get to the Glory Portal in santiago.
I also recall when i get there for the first time. There was a shelter made out of plastic. I came back there for a few times and i everytime i was there i used to meet Jato and his wife Maricarmen. Jato, besides he is a character, he has powers in his hands, i could see he healing people with my own eyes, and one of the healed was my mother.
I thought that i couldn’t leave without bury one of my paintings there. Since i was coming to the poferrada exposition, i could take the “heart” that i had left in Villoria de Rioja with my hospitality friends: Acácio and Orietta.
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I dressed the kimonos that i would buried in santiago in honor to the sacred kumano’s path.
And so we leave, me, Acacio, Galia, a new friend that i met a year before in Biaritz, and Juliana, my personal assistent.
