The Final Fool?

The Subtle Stone Eater. “El Sutil Comepiedras.”

Is the title for this bronze and obsidian sculpture by Jonás Gutiérrez on Puerto Vallarta’s Malecón ironic?

Is this an allegory of fruitless and unrestrained consumption? Dissipation heedless of the costs?

Or is this reference to the myth of Cronus? The swaddling of stone, and not children? Finally, an end to that madness?

Or is this just another plumbing of the bottomless depths that swirl about us?

Is this that fool that savors the final drop in a ballooning emptiness?

— May 2024 —