The 3rd Route of Art in Castelló d’Empúries:

Last weekend had been the 3rd Route in the streets of Castelló d'Empúries, a calmly village from the province of Girona. It consists in a period of time (this year had been 4 days) when the old houses of the village open the doors to exhibit the pictures made by artists from the country. There had been invited some artists from Madrid, and it had been recognized in an international level. The organizer was the painter and teacher of painting Anna M Constanseu, and there were 72 artists around the village.

In my opinion it's a demonstration of the fight to survive by culture and art, which is day by day more repressed and hit by the big systems of communication. I think that we are in a process which the civilization is trying to be cult and the big Capitalism system is deculturizing with big strings of bad ways to think and understand the world. I have a big question for the people in favour of the Capitalism: How the people can be interested in my work if I thought all the time creating it in the money I could earn? How much is affected my creativity by the capitalism? We have a problem, and it's the money. I know I don't have the solution for this problem, but we have to accept that we could try new ways...

Going back to the topic, it had been a fact which culturized all the friends which I invited to the exposition and they had lots of reflections after seeing the entire route... They were happy to think about abstract ideas which they never thought about...

Walking through the flooded streets of Hungary...

Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties for a toxic sludge flood from a alumina plant, and it could be possible that it would be deliberated. The government is investigating in the case and also had sent the army to disinfect the area.As Ronald Kandall says (a famous toxicologist), it’s immediately toxic, and it can burn your skin and your eyes taking about ten seconds. It also can kill plants, animals and things in the water. There died 4 persons, 6 were missed and also 120 were injured.

One thing which makes me think about how we are defenceless about the new technologies and how we are using them under no control. We would have to investigate more about the problems which can cause them, before the excessive consume of it.

I know it’s not the most important, because the real problem is met behind the controllers of the plant, the security system and the construction of this plant, but if then they say us that it could be a terrorist attack and they couldn’t stop it, then the people leave the idea of accuse the government.

I think it could be another terrorist attack, but I support the idea that the installations were in bad conditions and also the security patrol wasn’t enough. For this they said that it was a terrorist attack, because it was more than potential harm for the town and they weren’t able to accept the consequences.

It was a unexpected flood of toxic sludge and it doesn’t take long time to demonstrate a response, then we can see now the consequences and it’s a big catastrophe. To make an idea, we could be one night sleeping in our house and wake up involved with a liquid like lye, which can kill us in about 10 seconds if we are all involved of it. It’s incredible that the politicians didn’t act against it before it happened!

I think there’s a dirty game with lot of money which the governors and the powerful managers are playing with the moral principles about how to earn the maximum profit and minimal conditions for the town. When it get out of control, we can have a demonstration of that...

from:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/photogalleries/101006-chemical-flood-toxic-sludge-hungary-world-pictures/#/hungary-chemical-flood-suit_27247_600x450.jpg