karea xabier gantzarain
Karea is a ephemeral intervention by Pello Ulazia in the Paseo Berria of San Sebastian. You’re had a blazing row with the person you most love in this world and the house is smothering you. You feel like a caged sparrow. You memory takes flight and you do s stock-take on your latest line up of failures. After a while your brain tells you it needs air, your heart needs air... so there you are in Donostia, just following your feet as your wander around aimlessly. Step by step all the way to the riverbank. You stop there for a moment as you gaze at the running waters, and you decide to stumble after it to the sea. You ramble onwards, eyes upward as you admire the swooping jiggling patterns of the sparrows above you, and before you know it, you have reached the Paseo Berria.
All of a sudden, your eyes alight on a craggy white rock outcrop with steps leading up to it. You climb up the top and the idea of letting yourself fall flashes across your mind. But a sparrow has flown up to you and you stand there observing it move away. So you follow. It skips ahead, stopping now and then to let you catch up. It leads you to a shelter in the rock. Seems like a place you’d come to cry, there’s a sell of tears in the air. It won’t let you stop there, however. It leaps on ahead. It comes to rest on railings of some more steps that lead down into the sea. You’re astonished. There, sitting on the last step, is the person you most love in this world.
All of a sudden, your eyes alight on a craggy white rock outcrop with steps leading up to it. You climb up the top and the idea of letting yourself fall flashes across your mind. But a sparrow has flown up to you and you stand there observing it move away. So you follow. It skips ahead, stopping now and then to let you catch up. It leads you to a shelter in the rock. Seems like a place you’d come to cry, there’s a sell of tears in the air. It won’t let you stop there, however. It leaps on ahead. It comes to rest on railings of some more steps that lead down into the sea. You’re astonished. There, sitting on the last step, is the person you most love in this world.
