Hugues DELBERGUE (born 1953). Revenir sur terre... et aimer. Oil on canvas, signed lower left and dated (19)75. H_92 cm L_73 cm In a wood and gilded stucco frame. "RETURN TO EARTH ... AND LOVE Don't look for God in idols ... God is Spirit, Spirit of love ready to save us. And yet ... During a long prayer of musical silence, Faced with the wooden cross, The suffering of the world, My gaze riveted on the bronze pulpit, I gradually became embedded in the material. Dazzled by the reflections of a royal bronze, A bronze with the reasoning of the universe, Like a mirror, It brought out in me The reflection of my thoughts In an image of tenfold energy. The power of idolatry Made the error The error of my reason troubled by fatigue. Prisoner of my sick heart, Lost in the bosom of matter, I plunge ever deeper. Space strangles into a centered spiral. Suddenly ... God's image scatters, bursts and scatters to places of distortion, Reality or unreality? Truth or lie? Love is not in gold. We must destroy, Forget the image convulsed in the mind, Come back to earth ... and Love". 1986 - Hugues DELBERGUE