Salvador Dalí makes sense, no, really!

To understand Dalí's work it is necessary to go to the source, and the source for Dalí is in one place, the Cap de Creus. Looking at the seascapes and landscapes in the paintings they appear to be flights of fancy, but they can be found in the area around Cadaqués and Port Lligat. There you can find the aridity, the stones, the light all around you. Little sailboats with cruciform masts float motionless with their reflections in the clear cool waters.

Walking the stony pathways that wind steeply up the almost vertical hills you can spot trails of ants going about the business of carrying away the crumbs of anything dropped. Listen closely or sit still for long enough and you will become better acquainted then you might like with the flies and mosquitos of the Costa Brava.

Sit in the startlingly brilliant Mediterranean sunlight and you may understand how Dalí's story of the melting watches being inspired by a melting piece of Camenbert cheese could actually be true.

After traveling through Dalíland I've come to see how the intensely personal work of Salvador Dalí is drawn not merely from his imagination, but from his environment.