La Llorona - A memorial in movement and sound (2017)
La Llorona is a kinetic sculpture is powered by the waters of the San Felipe Creek which flooded in 1998 with tragic consequences.
La Llorona is named after a mythical ghost who haunts the rivers wailing in mourning for her children, whose lives she took in an act of desperation and revenge.
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This sculpture uses the energy of the water to inflate bellows, like lungs, exhaling every four minutes through organ pipes, emitting a cry for those who lost their lives. It breathes and cries 360 times a day in remembrance.
The work was commissioned by Dr. Aurelio Laing, of Del Rio, TX, to honor those affected by the flood.