Description:
Printed with a 12 inkjet printer over Hahnemühle Baryta paper. Signed certificate of authenticity.
Story:
Having lockdown restrictions lifted, on July I traveled to Valdivia.
After an intense internet search, found Naguilán Hotel with a curious construction design that captured my attention.
The webpage mentioned that they refurbished the old shipping company headquarters.
Google Maps, showed it was adjacent to the Valdivia River and in front of an islet.
Reading Valdivia history, I discovered that the islet was the shipyard of the Haverbeck Skalweit shipping company.
It was May 22, 1960, on a Sunday afternoon one of the greatest earthquakes and tsunami destructed Valdivia. The telluric force unleveled the land by 209 cm, flooding all surrounding islands.
Valdivia city is at sea level, so the Islet disappeared under water for 36 years. Only in 1996 when a subsidiarity of Haverbeck company reconstructed the islet by dredging the river, recovering 20 hectares of land.
Mother Nature made miracles, which recovered the splendor that the Haverbeck Islet had before the earthquake.
