Monday 7 April 2008

Such different statues!

It is hard to find a favourite monument in a town like Ávila. But some images are more touching than others and this feeling brightens them over the rest .
This iron statue is the Declaration of Human Rights Statue, it was given to the town by International Amnisty and represents the fight for the rights we are entitled to, just for being alive. Nobody has to give them to us, but sometimes societies forget about it and a remainder is needed. The iron is the symbol of the strength required in the fight.
No man should be made a slave. No chains. No soul, thought, faith, place restrictions.
Saint Juan de la Cruz, our great mysthic poet. Love in his poems is like a river flowing, like a fire burning inside, like a universe in constant movement. It is the hiding, the search. The achievement of happiness.
A quiet walker in fornt of a semi-circular walls represents the silent walk to the perfect love.

Desires and feelings spring from both statues. However, they are absolutely different.

1 comment:

ivasil said...

I prefer the first one, although the second is beautiful, too.
But the first is for today, for us, for an ideal yet to fight for.
About San Juan de la Cruz:what kind of love was he searching for?
Tis is a beautiful post.