By: Edgar Hernández, Mario Juarez, Rodrigo Hernández and Luis Pablo Pando

Sculpture memorial 

This sculpture depicts the Falklands war in 1981. It represents the interest conflict of two nations on cost of innocent people. Its purpose is to show how nationalism and non democratic governments can lead to military conflicts. Even tough it’s a past issue it’s important to address it as history often repeats. The representation of the heads being bigger than the corpses shows how to the eyes of these leaders, their army are just a casualty and doesn’t really affect them

It seeks to represent the two world leaders’ hands that had millions of lives depending on that one handshake. We did not paint or try to differentiate the third figure among the two parts because this sculpture could be used as an example of any other conflict that happened in the 20th century. This is why our artistic work is relevant up to this day, because in every single dispute, there will always be thousands of lives depending on what a few decide. We wanted a clear message to come through “At the end, and in our simplest form, we are humans living on the same planet”.

Clara Ángela Fernández Aldrete A01663195

María Fernanda Rosas Solórzano A01663240

Raquel Sofía Corral Ochoa A01663538

Antonio Isaac González Zenteno A01663380

Model 

We made this model with the purpose of displaying the impact the Cuban Missile Crisis had on the countries involved and how it affected each perspective (Victims, Activists, Perpetrators, Witnesses). The message it gives is that even when we are injured we can start all over again and how a nuclear war would have harmed humanity forever, changing everything we’ve ever known into a tragic radioactive reality. It is important for people to be aware of the past events that almost killed humanity because if we do not know our history we are doomed to repeat it again. As this model is directed to prepa tec students, we consider it relevant for us to know that humans are able to build something destructive that can be destroyed by something as fragile as communication. In conclusion, it is important to create our own history, our own path, without forgetting where we came from, what ideas create us and lead us to what we now know, so we can avoid repeating the horrible past events and develop as a new conscious society.