Dedalus in Compostela. Risco and Joyce speak in Santiago

Latex with acrylic on acetate, 60x40

Vicente Risco in his work (V. Risco's work)

1923: DEDALUS IN COMPOSTELA: Risco and Joyce chat in Santiago.

“Stephen Dédalus said: but me, the only blessed thing I carry with me is my Celtic blood. As long as my Celtic blood is not thrown away, I won't be able to separate myself from the cross. My cross is in my blood, and while my will denies the cross, my blood goes toward it and behind it, like the sap of a tree cut down from the force of life in spring; because our race is also a cut down tree, it is also a Christ nailed to the cross with the blood flowing, under the eagles, our race is the living image of the crucified Christ”.

(DEDALUS IN COMPOSTELA, PSEUDOPARAPHRASE, from LERIA series, published in Vigo's GALICIA journal during the year 1923. Republished within Trasalba collection by Galaxia in 1961, Vigo)