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Córdoba (Spain), August 2016 (© José Antonio Calañas Continente) Time in lockdown, enforced solitude, a time so fruitful and intense… extremely different, strangely familiar, though. A pretension of new normalcy, barely apparent, pretty unreal, which leads my eyes back to the very core, the hearth of my essence. This new air so fresh and fragrant of a somehow sudden normalcy brings the calling if roots and blood: it lets me, pure instinct, cross the country to get back to my home and to feel the force of reuniting with my gens. Surrounded by roots in the southern Summer, this familiar air resettles at last the cruel uneasiness of a solitude which is never to come back.

La Toba (Cuenca, Spain), May 2009 Some things remain untold, though not unspoken. Feelings visible as light, hidden as shameful secrets. Shame lays, though, in the eyes of the one who acts and makes, a stubborn feeling you try and never succeed at letting go. To tell night from sunrise, experience from pain… an adventure easily untold, although not always unspoken. What I see and tell from my vantage point finds its cave in me, visible only to myself, visible only to my soul. To feel again complete in my own company, comfortable in my own skin: happy with the cards destiny dealt to me. My heart untold, though never unspoken.

Lake Constance (Germany), August 2009 Endless blues in land and sky, turquoise in water and salt, azure in air and sun. Wet cotton-like clouds, warm air, end of Spring, pleasant announce of Summer. Time to get back to the journey in body through life, the mind never stopped. Time to feel once more the heartbeat of days, life running unstoppable through your veins.

Monasterio de Piedra (Near Zaragoza, Spain), August 2006 In the swift breeze sways the idea, inspiration does freeze and vanishes away. Beautiful, subtle game of letting words disappear in a labile display of paper and pen. Looking for tame words to paint your images into an indigo world brimming with colors. Fertile imagination, deliberate writing, agile creation of a playful mind.