Mujeres Clara Campoamor

“Sorpresa del trigo” (Wheat Surprise)

2017

Plaza de San Isidro

This mural is an homage to Miguel Hernández and the surrealist painter Maruja Mallo, one of the most relevant members of the Generation of 1927. The authors transferred to the wall the painting “Sorpresa del trigo” (painted in 1936). In it, a woman holds in her left hand three wheat seeds, and from her right hand sprout three spikes of the same cereal. The picture represents the relationship between the human being, the work and the land. It is accompanied by verses of the well-known poem “I have a need for your voice”, in the poetry book titled Unceasing lightning.

I have a need for your voice,
a longing for your company,
and an ache of melancholy
for the absence of signs of arrival.

Patience requires my torment,
the urgent need for you, heron of love,
your solar mercy for my frozen day,
your help, for my wound, I count on.

Ah, need, ache and longing!
Your kisses of substance, my food,
fail me, and I’m dying with the May.

I want you to come, the flower of your absence,
to calm the brow of thought
that ruins me with its eternal lightning.