Contexts — Mosaics

No more war - Art

21 January 2021, Jürg Messmer

Don Cupertino Delgado Camposeco expresses through his art, his experiences and knowledge of the events that occurred during the internal armed conflict. His work entitled "No más guerra" makes visible the saying: "A picture is worth a thousand words". These paintings are a very valuable didactic resource that show the events of this part of Guatemala's history that we do not wish to be repeated.

Existential experience

20 November 2020, Jürg Messmer

After the latest travel plans were clear and appointments such as the PCR-test were newly booked, everything was arranged and time for relaxation, and to joy, a deep sadness seized me. I thought of my family, my friends in Switzerland, and of the unruly Einsiedeln. Sinéad said you're regretting. No, I said, it is simply grief. But "regretting" is probably the same thing. The evening was nevertheless beautiful, also funny, and harmonious. Including the flambéed mushrooms with the fish, which Sinéad prepared in the copper-bottomed frying pan - based on my stories from my sheltered youth. The tinned peach halves and bananas doused with Cointreau and rum, flambéed under blazing flames in a copper pan, illuminating the room and delighting the eyes. This was the order of the day in Swiss kitchens, whether bourgeois or nouveau riche.

Can't hear it anymore

9 September 2020, Jürg Messmer

It seems that my ears simply follow my emotions, that sometimes say I can't hear it anymore. Rules, it doesn't get more absurd!

Leave and be left behind

9 September 2020, Jürg Messmer

I was again deeply affected when yesterday she expressed so directly her disappointment, even anger and incomprehension that I had been able to leave my family and friends. And this in order to go to Guatemala and find my happiness in a foreign place, with other people.