Kathy Bossinakis

Blessed Brokeness

29th November – 13th December 2025

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In 2024, I walked 800 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (France)
across the Pyrenees and into Spain, finishing in Santiago de
Compostela. Forgotten towns, revived by pilgrims seeking God,
spiritual awakening, or release from past pain, enriched and
sustained the arduous journey.

Amid the solitude of the walk, magnificent sights revealed
themselves: raw forces of nature, endless stretches of land, and,
rising along the path, golden churches, and cathedrals in
splendour. Places of grandeur like Pamplona, Burgos, León, and
Astorga punctuated the route, culminating in the majestic
Santiago de Compostela.

Yet within the crevices of these celebrated monuments grew
ordinary but striking flora: wild red poppies and fragile
dandelions. These incidental plants stood as an antithesis to the
Camino’s grandeur, brilliant yet humble, rooted in the earth
rather than reaching for the heavens.

Shrubs and weeds, subdued by architectural marvels, recalled
my own tendency to over-intellectualise art, where the pursuit of
meaning and subversion often conceals the ordinary. In
humility, I give homage to the ordinary and overlooked,
celebrating its beauty as a reminder of the world quietly resting
within the crevices of unremarkable and irregular gracefulness.