*Close to me* Tbilisi Mural Fest 2024

Created by Chilean artist Javier Barriga for Tbilisi Mural Fest. It is based on the same titled poem by the Nobelprize winner Gabriela Mistral.

"Apegado a mi":

Fold of my flesh I carried in my womb, tender trembling flesh sleep close to me!

The partridge sleeps in the wheat listening to its heartbeat. Let not my breath disturb your sleep close to me!

Little tender grass afraid to live, don't move from my arms; sleep close to me!

I have lost everything, and tremble until I sleep. Don't move from my breast; sleep close to me!

Gabriela Mistral