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The Need for the Search


We still have bad weather, waves and wind; we are sailing before the French coast of Bretagne, right now before the Saint-Malo fortress… and the landing of the allies in Normandy comes to my mind together with the novels by Arturo Perez-Reverte or my last trip, several years ago, with my Pirin, all over the Département Ille-et-Vilaine, visiting the Basilica of Saint Sauver of the 12th century, with its magnificent portal of the 19th century, gathering Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque stiles, without forgetting the Saint-Malo church (15th century), the Franciscan convent (12th century) and restored in the 19th century, and our unforgettable visit to Mont Saint Michel.

Following the thread of my two last comments, in which I reflect about art and artists, I want to set it “very” clear that I fully agree – even more so, it is necessary – on the idea of talking about art; I mean, doing everything necessary so that art, which is linked to humanity since its origins, does not lose the prominence it must always have to help keep the flame of spirit alive, to help find the divine in the humane, to help find your soul in your body.

In that search of the union of man with his Creator… union of love with God, in that search, the real artist is the one that expresses himself with his means because he feels that need, and NOT with the intention to communicate his own feelings, NOT to denounce cruelty and injustice, NOT to idealize or criminalize certain policies, NOT to launch his message, NOT because he has to live from it, BUT… because he has to do it, because he feels an inner urge driving him to express himself; and in that freedom and pressing need lies the path leading to the humane, to be closer to the divine.



Jorge Rando, La Bretagne, May 2007