“Maja Desnuda”

2012
C/Camino Viejo del Oriolet

Alfonso Ortuño is without a doubt one of the country’s most relevant cartoonists. In 2012 he portrayed, in a mural this painting where he interprets personally Francisco de Goya’s La maja desnuda. Near it are verses by Miguel Hernández from his poem These Bones of Mine are made for Pains.

These bones of mine are made for pains
and for doubts this brow:
pain comes and goes, doubt goes and comes
like the sea to the sands of the beach.

Like the sea to the sands of the beach,
I go about in this shipwreck of comings and goings
through a dark night of round, poor,
sad and dark-haired frying pans.

No-one can save me from this shipwreck,
only your love, the floating plank for which I search,
only your voice, the direction for which I strive.

To avoid, therefore, the evil portent
that not even in you will I find a safe haven,
I go from pain to pain, smiling.