My friend Martin, who lives in Concepcion del Uruguay, about 300km north of Buenos Aires, kindly drove me over to Paysandu in Uruguay, just across the river for a few tramites. Along the way we stopped at a Gauchito Gil memorial just outside of Colon. Martin said he'd always seen the memorial from the highway but had never stopped. After seeing my photos from San Juan, he thought of me and suggested we stop. Crazy yankis are good that way.
The memorial seems to be the work of one Luis Dantaz. Martin was in a hurry to open up his store after siesta so I didn't bother to research more about who was behind this memorial. I naively assumed I could find some info on this guy on wikipedia or, surely, google. I seem to be wrong, however. Anyway, I like how in the picture above the termite colony on the statue's arm looks like a giant turd.
The site also has a stone-line structure which one can walk into and contains a virgin. Notice how the brush strokes on the blue sea mimic the contours of the fake stones.
The rusty sign at the entrance makes Gil's eyes look jaundiced.
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