La Llorona Mural
This point of interest is available as audio on the tour: Visit San Francisco, Open and Engaged city
This huge blue wall is called “La Llorona” and deserves to be decrypted. Well, actually, they all deserve it, but one day won’t be enough if we stop in front of every wall! This work, entitled “la Llorona”, is by Juana Alicia, as are many of the others you’ve seen so far. First of all, la Llorona. It’s a Mexican legend that led to the creation of a traditional song, by an unknown author, which has been covered many times. It’s the kind of legend that parents use to stop their children from going out alone at night. There are many versions of this urban legend, but the best-known recounts how the inhabitants of ancient Tenochtitlan closed their windows at night so as not to hear the plaintive groans of a woman, nicknamed the Weeper. This Llorona, a spirit or ghost who, in a moment of madness, drowned her children, was condemned to wander the Earth in desperate search of them. In some versions, she kidnaps the children and leads them to the river to drown them. Here, under this evocative title, the cries are quite different. They symbolize several women’s struggles. First off, the struggle of the Bolivian women of Cochabamba who fought to prevent Bechtel Corporation from buying the water rights in their country, you also see the Indian women of the Narmada, waist-deep in water passively protesting against the flooding of their homes for a highly controversial dam project. Also on the right, you see women marching with photos of missing people. These are the women of Juárez protesting against the unsolved feminicides.That is a mural packed with meaning, as always with Juana, in magnificent shades of blue.
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