There are many occasions when you avoid talking about something because of the pain it produces, but there are many times when it is necessary or interesting to talk about it because it is the way to see it from different perspectives, to know it, to think about it.
For this reason I was surprised a few days ago when I saw this image in which you can see a monument to all those children who were not born. It is something so painful or a decision so difficult (as it happens) that I did not expect anyone to devote their time to capture it so visually.
The sculpture is called “The child who was never born” and is in Slovakia. The idea of making such a monument came from a group of young mothers and the work is a work of Martin Hudáčeka.
As always, in the face of such an image, there are plenty of words, but you will not deny that it generates many emotions to anyone who spends time watching it.
About its meaning or the motivation to create it, some say it comes to show the pain of a woman who underwent a voluntary abortion. I don't know if it's true and in fact I would rather not really know.
I see there a woman crying for a son she would have wanted to have and was not born. A miscarriage, a pregnancy that did not come to term, a birth that did not end well ... I also see the woman regretted having aborted, but staying only with this one, the monument acquires a vindictive and anti-abortion dye that takes away feeling and magic (in my view).
