GC28A4Z Painted Rocks (Blue Mountains) (Traditional Cache) in Morocco created by Bike-to-find

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Hidden : 5/10/2010

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It is the desert, its silence, its sheer cliffs and rocks, its tent of blue sky that calls to Jean Verame, visionary artist. He answers by creating archetypal mysteries with colors spread on rock formations and escarpments in arids an lonely lanscapes in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco near Tafraoute.

During a period of three months, Jean Verame utilized eighteen tons of blue, violet, red and white paint to cover part of the Anti-Atlas mountains. His project, fully supported by King Hassan II, is a striking piece of art. His work and his presence are not without effects on the local ethnic group, the Berbers, whose women still go veiled in front of every man, though they are the working force of the region. Often compared to Christo, Jean Verame offers a different approach to contemporary painting: his mountains will last for at least 100 years, and i hope also this Cache.

THE CACHE
The cache is located in the center of the two largest groups of painted stones on a small hill with a great view.

Many like it here so mouch that they choose this place to camp overnight.

AT THE MOMENT
At the moment Workers are repainting the Boulders.

THE ARTIST
The artist is painter, sculptor, and one ascomplished in the field of graphicd, a man who works with equal ease on a small scale or at grabd proportions. But it is evident that the paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures all reinforce the multidimensional vision which Jean verame carries from him in the solitude of the desert. All are parts of the whole. The canvas reveals the colored peaks and stones of a universal lanscape lying at the heart of the artist’s earth art, while the cascading pieces appear linked with the symbols painted on the Tibesti rocks.

The art of Jean verame is powerful ; the brilliantly colored rocks release a potent magic. Just as neolithic man painted energy-charged animals and sorcerers in the darkness of almost inaccessible caves, thus renewing the life force of the animal kingdom to make mankind’s existence possible, Jean Verame is attracted to difficult and uninhabited regions. He has no wish to attract crowds of onlookers ; it is through meditation in lonely places that the notion of the sacred landscape can exert its magnetism and healing.

The question arises, " How does the artist select those locations where he wishes to create his surreal scenes ? "To this, Jean verame answers that after days of traveling under difficult conditions, driving on unpaved trails in the blistering heat, suddenly the spot that awaits the artist is there. " it makes itself known. It is the site that conditions the work that follows ". For the artist, the desert holds a part of the " mythology of humanity ". For him, his desert transformations are a " religious act, but with no attchment to any one religion ", rather they are " a meditation or a theme of meditation ". In these metamorphoses, the painter remains outside of the conventional world of museums and art galleries. He turns in upon himself like those hermits who sought spiritual inspiration in desert caves far from civilization. As Jean Verame phrases it, " in the desert it is necessary to devest oneself of all cultural baggage…one is freed from all certainties, from all intellectual clichés " There in the silence and the sun, surrounded by stones that have witnessed time in the sense of Buddhist kalpas, the artist says, " I am the medium between the paint and the rocks. Each peak has is own life, its proper vibration ".

But beyond the personal communication of painter with the enduring cliffs and pebbled sand, there is always present the concept of peace between poeples and nations.

The silent music, magic, and shamanic intuition of Jean Verame ‘s art have the compelling strength to touch and reawaken the " living earth spirit ", the strength that may help to rehabilitate the unity of humans with their fellow beings and with the more end more fragile environment. (visit link)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

va orgjrra gur obhyqre, haqre fgbarf

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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