Inner shadow / Sombra interior (EN/ES) "We have killed the peasant culture but we have not replaced it with anything, at least, with nothing noble. And the destruction of Nature is not only physical, but a destruction of its meaning by man, a true spiritual and vital amputation of it Certainly, the purity of air and water is taken away from man, but language is also amputated, and the landscape in which his life passes, full of personal references and that of his community, is turned into an impersonalized and In the first of these aspects: how many are the words related to Nature, which, right now, have already fallen into disuse and, within a few years, will mean nothing to anyone and will become pure buried words. in the dictionaries and unintelligible for the Homo tecnologicus? I am afraid that many of my own words, of the words that I use in my rural novels, as an example aricar, agostero, weeding, bushel, soldered, black frost, alcor, to name but a few, will soon need explanatory notes as if they were written in an archaic or esoteric language, when they have simply tried to reveal the life of Nature and of the men who in it they live and designate the landscape, the animals and the plants by their authentic names. I think that the mere fact that our dictionary omits many names of birds and plants in common use among the people is sufficiently expressive in this regard " Miguel Delibes "The sense of progress from my work". Speech of entrance to the Royal Academy of the Language. 1975 - - - Inner shadow / Inner shadowMural painted in the Buceo quarter in collaboration with Ciudad en Construcción, Buceo Project by the architects Muma Sebasti and Silvia Perossio. ------ Mural pintado en el barrio de Buceo en colaboracción con @Ciudad en Construcción, Proyecto Buceo de las arquitectas Muma Sebasti y Silvia Perossio. . #bigmurals #ProyectoBuceo #muralart #streetart #daviddelamano_ #streetarturuguay #arteurbano https://www.instagram.com/p/CAx--VVlG5H/?igshid=zxl0y3q0nrpg
