Narrow But Endlessly Deep by Read Peter; Wyndham Marivic;

Author:Read, Peter; Wyndham, Marivic;
Language: deu, eng, eng, eng, spa
Format: epub
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2016-06-15T03:41:19+00:00

Lumi Videla Moya’s name is the only one to appear on this side of the memorial stone at José Domingo Cañas. The names of others believed held here but who may have been killed elsewhere are on the other side, facing the pavement.

Source: Photograph by Peter Read, editing Con Boekel.

On the right-hand side, the dividing stone wall between the site and its neighbour, is painted an arresting mural of four naked men and women suspended, in obvious agony, by ropes tied to their hands. The protruding, unnaturally wide rib cages and the elevated position of the women’s breasts on their bodies suggest that this depiction is by no means imagined. Some years after production, apparently on request by one or two neighbours, the genitals of the figures were painted over with loincloths as well as the women’s faces. The painting is now restored, but that first urgency to communicate something truly terrible is no longer evident. Beside the depiction are the words:

They murder the flesh

But not the idea

On a neighbouring wall is a proud mural painted by the población ‘La Victoria’ depicting women, men and children waving or bearing arms and flags. It reads:

For You. Always Were Are and Will Be (Población La Victoria).

Another nearby painting depicts two arms emerging from a pool into which a stream flows. On it are inscribed the words:

The fallen…

Eternal springs of life

An unsourced plaque:

And if on the other hand

they were to survive

in the truth

of a fellow man

in the broken voice

of a spokesman

of the people

The most poignant and poetic of the markers is a poem by the Uruguayan leftist exile poet Mario Benedetti:

Then if they return as birds

To perch once again

On the ruins of the future

As a good omen

To meditate on the earth

And its divisions.

(Tr. Paula González Dolan)

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