After visiting Paranal, I returned in direction to Antofagasta. I detoured to visit Mano del Desierto, a stone hand in the middle of the desert. The artist Mario Irarrázabal sculptured it in 1992 to express the feeling of injustice, loneliness, sorrow and torture. The concept of loneliness I can understand given the geographic location of the hand, and the emptiness of the desert around it.
Mano del Desierto: Hand in the middle of the Nowhere
Mano del Desierto: Meet The Hand
Mano del Desierte: Hand in the Desert
Mano del Desierto: Myself leaning against Hand
Mano del Desierte: Hand in the Desert during Sun Set
Mano Del Desierto: Hand and Myself in the Atacama Desert (and yes, it is a selfie)
Mano Del Desierto: Hand and Myself in the Atacama Desert
