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_© Flavio Martín Morante_2014 _Iphone 4S
A while ago I built the assemblage you see in the photograph that illustrates this post, somehow following in the aesthetics of a great artist as it was Joseph Cornell, and inspired by one of my favorite short tales by Eduardo Galeano, which I share today as some sort of Happy Holidays message.
The tale is called "A Window about Arrivals" from the book "The Walking Words" and it goes this way (translated from the original in spanish)_
The son of Pilar and Daniel Weinberg was baptized at the city's shoreline. Was there that it was taught to him what is to be sacred.
He received a seashell: "For you to learn to love the water" _they said.
They opened a bird cage with an imprisoned bird inside: "For you to learn to love the air"_ they said.
The gave him a "Malvon" flower: "For you to learn to love the land"_ they said.
And then they gave him a closed little bottle: "For you to never, NEVER open it and so to learn to love the mystery of things".
It is one of my favorite stories ever, one that made its way to one of my shelves at home, and one I repeat when I can, in case we forget that the real sacred things are just right there, in front of us.
Happy Holidays to everybody!
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