Walking to the future and goodbye from Prespa

After an intense week of walking art in Prespa overarching more than 40 walks and walkshops, 10 parallel activities, 30 talks/presentations, soundwalks and HUBs walking simultaneously in Switzerland, Corsica, Holland and Canada, I am looking now over the calm and vaste Prespa Lake, going back a stunning 5 million years, being among the oldest lakes on the planet, sharing millions of years of past with among others Lake Titicaca in Bolivia/Peru and Lake Tanganyika in Congo.
Two hundred artists of all the inhabited continents gathered to walk together the small villages and the wild nature of the Prespa National Park. The Lake and its overwhelming beautiful nature are today still marked by uncrossable borders with Albania and North-Macedonia, and invisibly scarred by the Greek Civil War, ending the lives of ten thousands of young men, and with the first use of napalm in history.
Today, more than fifty young and established artists, led by two local artists, joined in a last hike through the flower fields of the Prevali hills between two remaining control posts of this horrifying civil war.
The fairy tale beauty of the landscape ended at an equally enchanting small mountain river with the ruin of a military outlook point on higher grounds.
In the last collective artistic action the walking artists of the Prespa encounters created drawings with natural materials on the spot, transforming this place of fear and defense into a new place of hope and future, fulfilling the objective of the biggest walking art encounters ever in Prespa “Walking visions, visions for walking”.
Coincidentally this last day overlaps with Call of the Horizon Day, celebrated globally on July 9, inviting us to seize the day looking into the horizon, enjoying the little moments, and concentrating on what matters most in life. The horizon has always symbolized dreams, hopes, and opportunities in stories and movies since times fascinating with its beauty and vastness. Horizons could also signify something unattainable or unfulfilled dreams that are out of reach. This day is inspired by the 1918 American play titled “Before the Horizon,” award-winner playwright Eugene O’Neill describing one of the main characters to be particularly drawn to the horizon, which to him represents freedom and adventure but never acting on his dream.. Call of the Horizon Day has also been considered equivalent to Wanderlust Day in other countries. No better day than to end the Prespa encounters, to think big and move forward with hope and a grand view of the horizon.

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