Bacayu (Esculturas Rupestres) Light of Day, 1981
Rupestrian Sculptures
Lifetime Color and Black and White Photographs
40 x 53 in.
Upon receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship, Mendieta returned to Cuba and composed
many Esculturas Rupestres near Jaruco. Created with the natural landscape and
shapes of the rock formations, she carved out pre- Hispanie, Amerindian goddesses
and sometimes utilized paint to enhance the archaic feminine characteristics of the
figures.
