In this series, travelling to La Mancha, the destination of the literary genius Cervantes and his production of Don Quixote, I use the figure as a metaphor to look at the nature of distortion of reality and misperception. The figure suffers from bouts of hubris and delusion in Cervantes brilliant tale of a Knight errant, looking for adventures. However, his state of seeing what is not there is representative of the way our minds often function and likewise bring us into difficult situations, believing things to be other than they are...
