the intention was to create a dignified and austere form, reject bronze and marble, avoid a tradition that associates the funerary program to excessive ornamentation. overcome conventions, atavisms, inheritances. generate a true, powerful, resolved image. build a work that is pure structure.  that is what its author proposed, in opposition, to the "usual syrupy treatments on the subject."

- from "patrimonio de todos" [cdF Fotogralería]Prado