Powder printed image on glass, artist's own photograph, manipulated, screened, fused. The fused tile is 4” x 6” which lifted away from background matboard. Frame size is 8” x 10”.

This photo was taken in southern Cuba on the coast. A sculpture that is inspired by the aboriginal myth of Guanaroca stands on the southern coast of Cienfuegos (Cuba) to the pride of its inhabitants.

Guanaroca, according to aboriginal myth, was the first woman to inhabit the earth. She was united with Hamao and they had a son whom they named Imao. But the father did not want Guanaroca to share his love with the boy and so he abandoned him in the forest where the boy died.

When she woke up, the mother desperately searched for her son until she found his body inside a güira hanging from a tree. However, when she took it in her hands, it rolled to the ground and fish and sea turtles sprouted from it and began to swim in the tears of Guanaroca that flooded the valley.

The sculpture that is inspired by the myth, is the work of the great Cuban sculpture Rita Longa.