Esperando aquel día

A biplane occupies the centre of the canvas: fuselage and engine in terracotta tones, wings and upper surfaces in blue-grey, a wooden propeller and a white nose with a painted legend reading «EL POSTA». The machine rests on a group of cubic volumes — two earth-colored blocks and a blue house with windows — like a toy aeroplane set down on a toy village.

Around it, scattered across the whole surface and through the sky too, small objects repeat: spinning tops, each with its colored cone and a ring of white beads turning around it — the collection's inventory records another work by Córdova titled «Serie Trompos» —; balls striped in red, blue and white; and, at the lower centre, a little train of three red wagons on spoked wheels. From the top edge two very fine vertical threads, tipped in red, drop down and stop at the horizon line.

The field is a lavender grey that serves at once as sky, ground and water: below the horizon line, everything repeats in a blurred reflection. The work is signed at the lower right and comes on unstretched canvas.