Go on, try giving this a name. It’s the ‘monument’ at the entrance to Jimena and, yes, it is presumably yet to be finished (we hope!). No doubt the official reason it is still like this has to do with recent rain rather than with ‘we left it too late for Christmas’…
By the way, does anybody know what happened to the doe and deer that spent some time here?
December 27, 2007 at 07:11
………….where have all the artists gone????Perhaps it could be called…..pile of rocks…..no expense spared.Someone told me its supposed to be very ZEN……………………yes………apparently,eventually…….who knows when………it’ll have water trickling all over it…..great……I think….
December 27, 2007 at 07:17
I seem to remember the “monument” would represent the national park and Jimena’s part in it.
Maybe the deer symbolised the Town Hall’s plans and has been buried for the time being under the rocks of bureaucracy. Or, as is often the case with works of art, if you stand back from it and squint a bit you see it for what it really is…a pile of old balls.
December 27, 2007 at 15:21
Thanks for your comments, people!
Jimena is full of artists – click on ‘paintings’ in the ‘bigger=more posts’ widget on the left sidebar, or check back issues of Miradas del Sur to see only a few of them. The list does not include anyone at the Town Hall, Councillors or otherwise.
In fact, JimenaPulse has just registered JIMENARTE as a website name in order to show off the work of the village’s many painters, sculptors, musicians, writers and so on. Watch this space.
But , yes, it was supposed to represent the Nature Reserve, etc. And, yes, chances are it will have water trickling down it, or maybe spouting from that pipe sticking out of the middle, in which case it should be fun to sit around there in a high wind and watch the cars skidding off the classically ill-built roundabout… Another name suggested by someone in the street: ‘What the elephants left behind’, only they weren’t being so polite.
But I spoke to an artist this morning (Juan Antonio Soler, about whom an article is published in the next issue of Miradas), who told me that he had been ‘commissioned’ to create a sculpture, the sketches for which are at the Town Hall. This was much earlier in the year and he has been told recently that the Council doesn’t have the money for it… Surprise! He added that the deer that spent a night or two there, and are presumably safely tucked away in a municipal facility, are manufactured by the thousand and it would appear they intend to put them up permanently.
Plus ça change…