'Caminos' a peculiar sculptural group from Fuerteventura

The roundabout that is located just before Gaviotas beach, on the Jandía peninsula (Fuerteventura) has become one of the great tourist attractions of the island by virtue of a particular sculptural group formed by thirty children that raise their gaze to heaven.

Lisbet Fernandez Ramos, a Cuban artist based in Pájara for several years, is the author of this work called 'Roads' It is made up of thirty terracotta figures. They are grouped into two groups of 15 children each, of both sexes, on a natural scale and located on a volcanic rock soil (picón).

The curious fact is that the artist used portraits of local children, voluntarily given by their parents, for which each figure corresponds to a real person.

If it is observed from a higher perspective, it will be possible to observe that the set is seated on a large Yin Yang and the effect it produces is enigmatic, disturbing and invites reflection.

In Lisbet's own words, 'The thirty children of clay looking towards the sky, signify the starting point of human growth, the beginning of their own path of search and development towards the highest as the plants that seek the light.

The work is complemented by the representation in the rotunda of the oriental symbol Yin Yan, the scene where all the evolution of man in his universe takes place. '


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