Milagros

dress 30cm x 20cm x 10cm

rucksack 9cm x 8cm x 6cm

 

Description

Doll's camouflage rucksack with horseshoe charms, red thread

Doll's red velvet dress with heart charms and garnets, gold wire

 

Themes, comments & storylines

Action man and Barbie doll? Expectations hang heavily on both. The hem of the red velvet dress is heavily laden with the burden of affections and expectations of love, the garnets, translucent drops of frozen blood, adding to the weight. The soldier's fate does not rest on skill or bravery, but on lucky escapes - the horseshoe charms are not a whim but a necessity, an attempt to entice a favourable fate.

The milagros in churches bear witness not so much to religious faith, but to a much deeper belief in magic, in our ability to attract mercy and fortune in what might often seem a chaotic and senseless world. The possibility of miracles lightens the heaviness of being, it gives us the power to imagine, dream of and create different futures.

 

"La fe desnuda no se sostiene. La gente necesita símbolos con los que abrigarse, porque fuera hace mucho frío."

Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La piel del tambor, Debolsillo, Bacelona 2004, p. 294