Saturday, May 11, 2013

Fragments of a exploded political map


I was looking to a vase full of flowers, which was in reality a teapot. It fell down in the floor and broke into lots of pieces where suddenly I saw a map of Europe.
 It was a political map, blue water and countries in different colors, there were only representative countries. I look to the upper left of the map and I see England. I was staring at it for an eternity, until I realized there is something wrong.
The map was as if inflamed. Ireland is huge and suddenly starts moving and it separates from the map as a kind of cloud. Northern Ireland is separated from the rest and it starts climbing. The rest of England goes down while I follow the trajectory of it as more pieces are separated. I look at Spain, several pieces of the colored map separate and start floating in different directions. I also see Italy falling apart. This happens all over Europe. I see nothing but Europe. I didn't see Africa, or Asia.
I observe how countries fall apart and are created as grooves on the map and water enters between the borders of the countries. Suddenly I see a beach, My beach. I observe from above how the waves are sliding on the shore. One of these waves, called Galician moon tides, is long, falling hard and make furrows in the sand and then it removed the entire mass of water with great force and looks like zigzag fragments in the sand. I watch as the tide comes in and out several times. The sand breaks apart and forms kind of small islands that remind me the map of Europe.