November 9th
Opening night. Michelle Bachelet doesn’t show up. The Minister of Culture, Paulina Urrutia comes instead. I give her a copy of the letter, telling her of my request to Michelle: “don’t sell the glaciers, water is gold.” She listens, and says, “yes, Michelle will come to see the show.” 20,000 copies of the poem with a red thread begin to be distributed. Most Chileans don’t know about El Niño del Plomo, or that he was found with a red thread. The red thread may be a symbol of union. The Incas conceived themselves, (the totality of their culture), as a quipu, seen from below, or from above, radiating a vision of the world from Cuzco into the four directions, all the way to the river Maule in the South of Chile. The work acquires a new name: “The Blood of the Glaciers.”
