Before becoming a sculpture, the stone boat already existed in the stories of floating stones, common narratives in Ireland, the British Isles, Brittany and Galicia, legends that narrate journeys and arrivals of deities in stone boats, the best known being the one of Santiago the Apostle and his arrival in Padrón, but also San Andrés de Teixido, Santa Comba de Cobas, San Juan de la Misarela, La virgen de A barca de Muxía, San Declan de Ardmore, San Brandán ...
The poetic and incongruous nature of the idea of a stone that sails is magnified when transposed to the field of sculpture. This art form, better than any other medium, has the virtue of allowing us to bear witness, the sculptural object is opposed to the virtual, it shares our physical space, it is within our reach, we can touch it to believe that the granite weighs and floats ...
The boat was launched on April 16th in the washing place of the village of Mallas in Fisterra and, to the astonishment of unbelievers, it floated.
