[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_03

[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_03

Eleny or Nobody, Galanaki Rea, 2003

 

“Her effort to understand made her rightfully a passenger on the ship of fools. And on board this adrift ship, she faced long voyages during which wedding songs, funeral orations, and the short, disjointed sentences of loved ones, of those who mark the stages of an entire life, were confused”.

The Cretan writer Rea Galanaki talks about travel in space and time, the same one that the island of Crete transmits.

When I traveled around the Island, I felt the same sense of immobile change, of

gestures that are always the same, repeated and lost, like waves, of departures and expectations that the Mediterranean wrote and then erased. Still, it does.