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I am considering bring chalk so that I can write a note or two, but it will last only until the next rain.
To benefit whom?I am considering bring chalk so that I can write a note or two, but it will last only until the next rain.
According to this article, a 33 year old French pilgrim on the Camino Primitivo has been arrested for painting his particular sign (roughly the infinity sign with an arrow going through it) on numerous signs and camino mojones (I think the word is bollards). Some pictures and the full article here:
http://elprogreso.galiciae.com/nova/350662-imputan-peregrino-frances-pintar-mojones-camino-primitivo
No objections from this peregrina!
Yes actually! But at a sort of pop up art evening in my city called Nuit Blanche, an artist created what is know as "throw up art" which is graffiti to the rest of us... Made of colorful icing sugar frosting. It was beautiful. And it only lasted until it rained. I thought it was brilliant.I hope you are joking.
It may not rain for a month. Until then, do the ants and flies reign supreme?Yes actually! But at a sort of pop up art evening in my city called Nuit Blanche, an artist created what is know as "throw up art" which is graffiti to the rest of us... Made of colorful icing sugar frosting. It was beautiful. And it only lasted until it rained. I thought it was brilliant.
I found that many pilgrims defaced along the Camino from dropped trash, markers and the outside toilet and paper left behind.No objections from me either!!! It's hard to imagine that a pilgrim would vandalise the Camino. Don't these people learn anything from walking the way???
I remember the last load of drivel we had to read on the last part of the Frances; someone thought it profound to scribble the lyrics of a John Lennon song on every rubbish bin (appropriately) over several kilometres.
Leave the permanent markers and spray cans at home!!!
Rains here, where I saw the icing throw up, on a much more regular basis. Nuit Blanch is in late September or early October and it rains in Toronto in the fall.It may not rain for a month. Until then, do the ants and flies rain supreme?
I am considering bring chalk so that I can write a note or two, but it will last only until the next rain.
Lot of home made crosses made of twigs stuck in RPG fences along the Camino--Graffitti???
No. Dont even do that.It is an eyesore to everybody but you.I am considering bring chalk so that I can write a note or two, but it will last only until the next rain.
Send him to the French forign legion for ten years and than a further 20 in The Bastille. And if he is still unrepentant sentence him to 1 year of eating typical English food,he should be sorted by then.He should be made to clean every one of them, if that is possible or do community service on Camino routes, as well as a fine.
The Camino is many things to many people; some religious, some spiritual and some just superstitious. Many pilgrims, past, present and, undoubtedly future make the pilgrimage with a specific intent: to carry a rock symbolic of their sins and deposit it at the Cruz de Ferro, in remembrance of the deceased, or one to infirm to walk that is left at a specific location that may have meaning. Whether is a stone, a cross, a hat, or a scallop shell each and every item has significance for one, or for many. Regardless of your particular situation...this is their Camino.
Lovely flowery language squire, does it mean that if one considers dumping old cars at artistic and meaningful points along the camino and painting them in significant colours, then its OK to go ahead and do it? Or Tracy Emin could come from London and leave her unmade bed in the street outside every Albergue or hostal that she stays at. Because that seems to be what you are implying..What this graffiti artist is doing is somewhat delinquent and is of no value to anyone.The Camino is many things to many people; some religious, some spiritual and some just superstitious. Many pilgrims, past, present and, undoubtedly future make the pilgrimage with a specific intent: to carry a rock symbolic of their sins and deposit it at the Cruz de Ferro, in remembrance of the deceased, or one to infirm to walk that is left at a specific location that may have meaning. Whether is a stone, a cross, a hat, or a scallop shell each and every item has significance for one, or for many. Regardless of your particular situation...this is their Camino.
Arn, I understand the very strong emotions that people may have. But as adult we realise that often our own needs and desires are secondary. They are secondary to the needs of the less able, the less powerful, the needs of the community as a whole, the needs of the future. We learn self control. We learn to delay gratification (says she, reaching for a chocolate!). Well, we try. In the case of the Camino, what seems like a small thing becomes huge when multiplied by the numbers involved. Imagine the state of the Cathedral if everyone left a little "offering" inside.The Camino is many things to many people; some religious, some spiritual and some just superstitious. Many pilgrims, past, present and, undoubtedly future make the pilgrimage with a specific intent: to carry a rock symbolic of their sins and deposit it at the Cruz de Ferro, in remembrance of the deceased, or one to infirm to walk that is left at a specific location that may have meaning. Whether is a stone, a cross, a hat, or a scallop shell each and every item has significance for one, or for many. Regardless of your particular situation...this is their Camino.
Another Walker, may I suggest two things: 1. Since you obviously haven't read many of my replies on other topics, you might find that there is a recurring theme...the Camino IS a very personal endeavor and, the Camino has a way of dealing with issues, both good and bad. 2. Taking my reply out of context (stones, crosses, etc.) and inserting the specious equivalent (old cars and Emin's unmade bed) is disingenuous at best.Lovely flowery language squire, does it mean that if one considers dumping old cars at artistic and meaningful points along the camino and painting them in significant colours, then its OK to go ahead and do it? Or Tracy Emin could come from London and leave her unmade bed in the street outside every Albergue or hostal that she stays at. Because that seems to be what you are implying..What this graffiti artist is doing is somewhat delinquent and is of no value to anyone.
Glad I'm not the only one....... I've never left a stone on the Cross de Ferro.
No objections from me either!!! It's hard to imagine that a pilgrim would vandalise the Camino. Don't these people learn anything from walking the way???
I remember the last load of drivel we had to read on the last part of the Frances; someone thought it profound to scribble the lyrics of a John Lennon song on every rubbish bin (appropriately) over several kilometres.
Leave the permanent markers and spray cans at home!!!
I thought the graffiti in Ponferrada was the worst of all on the Camino but obviously the town has embraced the "artists" and asked them to paint some positive murals.
What class would one put the attached graffiti? I found it inspirational. It is a poem by a Basque writer and you can find the original Spanish version upon entering Najera.
I thought the graffiti in Ponferrada was the worst of all on the Camino but obviously the town has embraced the "artists" and asked them to paint some positive murals.
What class would one put the attached graffiti? I found it inspirational. It is a poem by a Basque writer and you can find the original Spanish version upon entering Najera.
Well there's a difference between art which the community endorses and someone just scrawling junk any old place. So I think your attachment is great.
I find it ironical that we all walk the way dependent on the guys with pots of yellow paint doing what would get them arrested in any country in the world ;_)Yes, we saw the "Imagine" lyrics. Quite annoying.
Unless of course they are rare flowers.
I wrote a note to two friends in one village, hoping they would find it and see I had gone ahead to the next village. I wrote the note on paper and put it under a stone on a seat. It seems that my note was noticed by some locals: when my friends turned up, they were shown the note. I assume the locals had been showing the note to everyone who arrived before them as well, until finally my friends saw it!!!I would just say that I think that a much better way to write a note to someone is to write a note to someone. You can put it on top of the mojon and have the names written in large letters. Works fine.
My wife and I completed our Camino (Sarria to Santiago) last year and we were appalled, along the way, by the inane graffiti on the route markers. Another perhaps more worrying thing were the cyclists traveling at speed from behind without warning. Some had the courtesy to audibly signal their coming and in passing to mention that other were behind also..Many did not..According to this article, a 33 year old French pilgrim on the Camino Primitivo has been arrested for painting his particular sign (roughly the infinity sign with an arrow going through it) on numerous signs and camino mojones (I think the word is bollards). Some pictures and the full article here:
http://elprogreso.galiciae.com/nova/350662-imputan-peregrino-frances-pintar-mojones-camino-primitivo
No objections from this peregrina!
Still, it is an age to know better.Hi dears... in fact I'm not 33 but 32.
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