Spring, 2007, I am salining in the “Europa” (a boat of a German company), the company Hapag-Lloyd, with which we normally travel to Hamburg. The sea is quite rough. After a good breakfast, not very quiet, but quite relaxed, I am reading the Die Welt newspaper and in the culture pages there is an interview a journalist did to a renowned painter who currently has an exhibition in Hamburg.

Reading this interview brings back to my memory the theory that I have so often developed on the explanation some painters give about the form, the content and the result of their work. And each time I read any of those comments, I always reach the same conclusion – that I have always defended – which is that one reaches the work of art by looking at the creation and not by analyzing it. That is why I think THERE IS NO NEED for the explanations an artist may give about his work, nor is it necessary to talk about the reality represented or about the dimensionality or the space; and they are of no need because sometimes the painter wants to explain the inexplicable: existential moments, making them (sometimes unintentionally) essential, and some even lie (sometimes unwillingly) in order to find an answer for everything. The interviewee feels protagonist of a work he has done, but that has become independent from him, so: the work is the only protagonist.
We have to look at the painting with the look of a child, with the pure look that does not analyze but that enters the painting, becoming part of it, without wanting to own it, looking for nothing… that is the way to discover beauty… without exams.
    Now I leave my desk, I kiss my love and I go for a walk.

Jorge Rando, sailing, May 2007