The woman’s grandson said “she wanted to break the paradigm of everything Mexican” (Representational)
A Mexican great-grandmother named Caterina Orduna Pérez recently fulfilled her wish to place a giant statue of a penis on top of her grave after her death.
Vice has reported that as a “recognition of her love and joy of life”, a statue of a 5-and-a-half-foot-long penis and balls weighing about 600 pounds was installed at her tomb. Grandmother’s family at their grave in a Mexican cemetery.
Caterina’s grandson lvaro Mota Limón told Vice World News in an interview, “She wanted to break the paradigm of every Mexican where things are sometimes hidden due to not having an open mind… Was, very forward- thinking things through.”
Before her death at the age of 99, Caterina, who died on January 20, 2021, was known as Donna Kata in her small town of Misantala because of her fascination for gender. Mota Limón explained to Vice, “She always said in the Mexican sense that we were square.”
For context, the Spanish word ‘vargas’ can be translated somewhat to ‘c–ks’ in English, but has many other colloquial meanings depending on different contexts and expressions. It can also mean a compliment, a badge of honor, that if something is ‘varga’, it is good or badass.
According to Vice, Mota Limon recalled how her grandmother “looked at life with great optimism and that problems should not overwhelm us.”
She conceptualized that idea for family with a gender metaphor, which means that when you’re a Varga, “no one should give up. When problems arise, you need to face them.” “
Isidro Lavoignet, the engineer who designed the statue, told the outlet: “At first I thought it was a joke because it is not very common to see sculptures or monuments like this and even less so in memory of someone who has died. “
After the late grandmother’s family was adamant about the structure, Lavoignet began work on it with a team of 12 people, including sculptors, carpenters, carvers and sanders, and completed it in a month. did.
Although there were conservatives who were not happy with the display of a giant linga above the tomb, Katrina’s grandson said the family had discussed the reaction when planning the statue and were prepared for an “attack of criticism”, according to Vice.
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