No New Land (1997)
“Both were the work of one hand, even a casual observer could have noted that. Vague human figures, in what looked like kneeling positions in one of them; in the other a person with arms stretched out as if crucified or simply flying; masks looked on at whatever tragedy was going on, and everything merged into a background done in coarse strokes in colours that could have been inspired by the leaden green of the wall. If they had not been obtained without cost, they would not have been there. Bu...t one morning the residents emerging from the elevators on their way out noticed that the paintings were gone. Two great rectangular patches marked the places they had occupied. It was surmised that they had been taken the previous night. Who would steal those dark paintings whose absence was now so strongly felt that complaints had even gone to the superintendent? There was a report by some of the ladies who go to mosque at five in the morning that the super himself had overseen their removal in the small hours of dawn.MoreLess
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