Camino Santiago de Compostela
Cebreiro-Finesterre, 2000
Museo Centro de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2000
2000th anniversary of Christianity
The Performance Artist was sweeping the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the most important European Christian’s pilgrims path. The pilgrimage leads tot he relicts of St. Jacob in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. For ten days and 250 km she swept the final part of this path trough out Spain’s Galician province beginning in Ceibreiro. through the villages along the way, the field paths, the forests, the Cathedral crossing Santiago, continuing sweeping towards Cape Finesterre. At Lands End she throuwed the broom into the sea, there where the Western old world is ending.
The Atlantic Ocean
separates and connects the Old World with the New World. Proofed by scientists the ocean streaming causes fish streams, the transport of Columbus and the broom from Spain to America.
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