Hand of the Desert

In 1992, out in Chile’s vast and desolate Atacama Desert, Santiago sculptor Mario Irarrázabal installed a striking sculpture of a left hand rising from the sand.

The massive, 36-foot-tall sculpture, constructed of iron and cement, reminds some viewers of the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem “Ozymandias,” which tells the tale of a fallen monumental statue of an arrogant king lying in pieces in a desert. The statue, commissioned by the nearby mining town of Antofagasta, has a mate — thousands of miles away in the Uruguayan coastal resort town of Punta del Este, a giant right hand by the sculptor rises from the beach, a “Monument to the Drowned.”

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