Corey G's Jibber Jabber: My First Gaudi Experience: La Sagrada Famila

(July 1, 2008)

Video of first view

WOW!!!

Mind-blowing, breath-taking, awe-inspiring, un-imagineable, un-real..... It´s hard to come up with the words to desribe Antoni Gaudi´s work in the making: La Sagrada Familia. This is a churge Gaudi started around the turn of the 20th century. Many years were put into it toward the end of his life. His participation in the work concluded when he was taken away early in his life by being

struck by a tram in town.

continuing his legacy and completing this project. As you will see fromWith his work only partially complete, different people have worked on the pitures, they are working on the church as we speak. Many cranes are towering along side La Sagrada´s bell towers, and workers can be seen

throughout the site.

When you get to La Sagrada Familia via subway, and take the escalator up. You know to turn around immediately because of all the onlookers looking behind you. It´s right there and its proximity slaps you in the face.

When you walk inside and around La Sagrada Familia, I couldn´t help thinking of a psychadelic Beatles song or an old school hip hop song with all kinds of samples in it. It is so multi-layered, vivid, and textured. You can spend minutes looking at very small areas of the monumentally large structure. You can look at a place you looked at earlier, and find something totally new. The sun can be at a different angle, and a new shadow adds another nuance.

I can´t say more, and my pictures can´t do it justice. You have to see it for yourself. As a tease, my pictures will have to do.

They say it may be completed in 30 years (it´s tallest bell towers have yet to be built--they will add nother 180ft! Making this the tallest church!). I guess I´ll need to make another visit when I´m retired!