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When I was younger, Medina Azahara was in the depth of consciousness of all of us,
as an echo linking us to something important,
something that somehow identified us with the historical memory
and connected us with the past through a poetic thought.
Now I'm here. My life has always been a permanent question: why I am where I am.
And in this case, I also wonder: what am I doing here, at my age,
as head of an association that wants to be born,
that aspires to play a role in our city.
The answer would be:
Medina Azahara is still a reference to discover,
not the history as past, but the history that is present.
Medina Azahara participates in a debate that transcends borders,
not just local, but also national and international.
Perhaps, exceptional events such as the 11 S,
have attracted worldwide attention to events that took place in the 9th and 10th centuries,
in a search for valid models to build a peaceful coexistence
between cultures and civilizations that, at present time, are confronted...
Friends of Medina Azahara aims to contribute to finding the roots of the man and his role as a social being,
to link the organizations to people.
Nowadays, institutions are not giving people the material
and psychological security they need.
What we want is to build a panorama in which the past and future are on the same horizon line,
that means that we are committed to modernity
and that modern times are on the same horizon line than past times.
We proclaim the need to follow the ways of art: walking paths that have not been previously trodden.
I believe the association, in a situation of continuing discovery, will find its place in the local community,
but also in the national and global community.
Overcome homogenization, overcome vulgarity, search for quality and finesse,
being rigorous and demanding.
In art, when one has painted much, in the end you have to remove things to keep the essential.
In this search for essentiality, is substantial to find more clues about what is left of history,
as a valid reference today.
But where the feeling has gone,
where is the feeling
where is the emotional intelligence that makes us equal,
that can lead us to a real coexistence.
Coexistence is a political term, but the need of coexistence is a human need
and we can achieve it through critical thinking, through art, through the will for change...
I believe that nowadays, if anything, we need the will for change.
First, we need to persuade people that every person is a creative person, not only a receptor.
This society - very pragmatic, highly commercialized society - has turned people into an anonymous being
who has been given individuality, but freedom has been taken away from him,
People choose that they are told to choose.
People has lost most of his creative skills. So what is the role of art?
To fight homogenization, to tell people that they are individuals , that they are real individuals.
If we do not want assume that roles of dominance and we advocate for equality,
we have to acquire that zen-like philosophy where you are me and I am you,
where I assume "the others" as part of my own personality.
So are we deluding ourselves?. No.
People who make art know that it makes no sense to mislead oneself.
Reason, if it is not critical and does not distinguish between truth, lies and traps,
The Reason is also accomplice.
And almost every despicable system have very good thinkers and philosophers
However, we want to be human beings, we aspire to humanity...
So let's make the revolution :)