I believe Picasso could have painted Guernica without the preparation, it was always there in him, but the sketches were necessary, yes, for the anticipation of the painting, for the fear of the painting, for the emotional and political level the painting would become ... Filtering the worLd every day, every minute, second, every crack in the sidewalk, every bottle of beer on the tracks or gutter in the streets is the storm before it hovers over the low populated city, before the chimes sound or the shudders clack against each other ... the truth is there, the truth is underneath the porch, art a secret treasure to be found in a field.