Cuban Frankenstein

The Cuban Frankenstein is the offspring of Fascism and Marxism. Fascism --disguised as Stalinism-- and Marxism went in a pleasure trip on a Soviet battleship to the island of Cuba, around the year 1930. The Soviet ship was not allowed to enter the port of Havana and Cuban political activist Ruben Martinez Villena had to take a swim to visit the Soviet sailors. Martinez Villena died afterward from tuberculosis, but not without saying first to Cuban tyrant Gerardo Machado that he was an “ass with claws” and giving birth to a beautiful crossover, the first Cuban Frankenstein.

The Cuban Frankenstein is posing for me in the Cuban landscape. In the background there is a horse. This is not any horse, but The Horse. In the foreground, in front of the Cuban Frankenstein lies an hour clock that contains water instead of sand and that is horizontally instead of vertically. The Cuban Frankenstein spend his life waiting for The Horse to die. But because the hour cloak has water and is horizontal nothing ever happens and The Horse never dies.

In the next picture that I took of a Cuban Frankenstein –there are many of them, of different types-- he is so obsessed with leaving the island that he has become a boat himself with a pair of legs. In the meantime The Horse has taken control of time and is waiting with anxiety for the Cuban Frankenstein to leave. That way the Cuban Frankenstein will find a job in exile and send money back to Cuba to support The Horse.