Santo Bulto (Santiago or San Diego) c. 1938

Editor: This watercolor and colored pencil drawing from around 1938 is titled *Santo Bulto (Santiago or San Diego)*. The rendering almost feels like a technical drawing – maybe for a sculpture? What catches your eye in this work? Curator: You know, it does feel like a meticulous record of a piece, almost like an anthropologist's sketch. It reminds me of the reliquaries you see in European churches. And what really gets me is how flat the colour feels, but then, how descriptive the details are. The sword! The figure is holding a rather menacing, pointy-tipped instrument, and its face… so pensive! Is it longing? Judgement? What do you think? Editor: Definitely pensive, maybe even a little severe. I’m wondering if the artist, Eldora Lorenzini, was interested in capturing not just the form, but the weight of history that this figure represents? I’m curious, where does this piece sit in the context of her work? Curator: I suspect she was looking back—drawing from a past steeped in stories and symbolism, pulling a character out of its original time. She may have asked what we can see, perhaps in ourselves! Artists don’t usually recreate these antiquated warriors with colour so mute. It’s like looking through an old mirror. Is she trying to get to what hides in the shadows? Editor: Absolutely, I see that now. Looking at it again, the colour choices contribute to a muted quality, almost as if the work wants us to meditate on our connections with the past. Curator: Beautiful! It is indeed a journey through echoes, prompting me to consider, who were those figures we called “heroes”, and are there heroes left at all?