The beautiful slumbering isle /Reflection Hunters Contest Round 249

A few days ago, I introduced lovers of reflections to an image of the Las Antillas fountain, and today I want to show you a detail I captured today because it's impossible to pass by this sculptural ensemble without stopping to contemplate such beauty.

This piece represents the island of Cuba, a Taíno symbolism that conceives the largest Caribbean island in a sensual form.

The piece, submerged in a 50-cm deep water mirror, is made of pink cement by the Cuban sculptor Rita Longa Arostegui in 1977.

Cuba lies like a woman under the Caribbean sun. Its coasts are gentle curves caressed by the blue sea in a slow, salty ebb and flow. The heat settles on the skin of its beaches and the waist of its palm trees, in an eternal, fertile slumber.

If you stop to look at it, the breeze moves the thick green hair of its mountains.

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