Witches can fly, ART makes it possible

One of humankind’s most desired wishes has always been to fly. Science and technology gave us wings through aeronautics, but beyond machines, there remains the dream of doing it with our own bodies, sky above, ground below, nothing in between

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That dream has always come with a price: many of the fathers and mothers of science and medicine were once branded as alchemists, herbal healers, or even Satan’s devotees. Dreams come with nightmares, a yin-yang of the subconscious.

Asuntos de brujería. “Vuelo de brujas” (1798), de Goya

History melted these elements in a crucible where semiotics came before semantics, where painting and ritual were still carved in our DNA. Out of those nights, not the days, Francisco de Goya transmuted visions into his darkest artworks. They don’t explain; they detonate. They don’t comfort; they scorch.

For this eye, Vuelo de brujas (“Witches’ Flight”) is the most potent and overwhelming of Goya’s nightmares. A canvas where terror, horror, and folk tales, blood and fire, inquisitors and witches, all collide. Even today, Goya makes us believe -one way or another- that we can still “fly.”

Witches can fly, ART makes it possible