#latinamerican writters

[thebottomfromhell]

"He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn’t get up, impeded by his enormous wings."

"They both looked at the fallen body with a mute stupor. He was dressed like a ragpicker. There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away any sense of grandeur he might have had. His huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor’s voice. That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. And yet, they called in a neighbor woman who knew everything about life and death to see him, and all she needed was one look to show them their mistake."

“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”

- Gabriel García Márquez, translation by Gregory Rabassa.

Angel

Controversial artist Sun Yuan and Peng Yu create a hyper-realistic sculpture of a fallen angel. The piece shows an old woman who has fallen from grace. She also has feather-less wings on her back

The artists created the piece using silica gel, fiberglass, stainless steel and woven mesh which is pretty tame for the them. Sun and Peng have been known to use baby cadavers and human fat in a lot of their art. This peice is featured in Beijing