What the Bay Gives Back to the Glass. Entry for Reflection Hunters contest SMARP-round 259 [EN/ES]
🇬🇧 In English

Hello dear #ShadowHunters community,
On this occasion I am joining this week’s reflections contest in its round #259.
This week my reflections led me to a very familiar place in the city: the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, right in front of Matanzas Bay. It is a relatively recent building, with firm lines and wide glass windows facing the coastline.
I went there without looking for anything in particular. Sometimes I simply walk and let the light decide for me.

In front of the building, across the street, stand the coconut palms that line this part of the shore, very close to what we know here as Playa de los Pinos (Pine Beach). Although, interestingly, there are no longer any pines. Nor the casuarina trees that once gave the place its name and shade. The memory of a city sometimes remains only in its names.
What made me stop was the glass.
In the large windows of the Prosecutor’s Office, not only was the bay reflected. The palms also appeared, tall and slightly leaning in the sea breeze, duplicated on the bright surface. Their leaves opened like green fans against the blue background, but this time suspended vertically, contained within the building.
It was an interesting superposition: the solid, newer structure holding the living image of the coastline. The sky seemed to enter the building without asking permission. The palms were not inside, yet the glass made them part of the interior landscape.

I stood there watching how the movement of the wind transformed the reflection. The leaves trembled gently, and that vibration slid across the polished façade. Everything was happening outside, and yet also in the glass.
I thought about how the city lives with its different stages. Some constructions rise with recent firmness, while others bear visible traces of time passing. And in the midst of it all, the bay remains there, reflecting everything without distinction.
The reflection brought together what in reality is separated by a street: the building and the palms, the institution and the sea, recent architecture and the memory of the place. The glass functioned as a silent bridge.
Perhaps that is why I enjoy searching for reflections. They do not change what exists, but they rearrange it. They place it in another perspective. They allow us to see together elements that we normally observe separately.
On that luminous façade, the palms found a second home for a few seconds. And I found an image where the city seemed more integrated, more harmonious, as if everything could coexist within the same transparent surface.
Thank you for looking with me at what the glass chooses to give back.
Up to this point my entry for this week’s contest. The images are my property and for the English version I use DeepL Translate.
🇪🇦 En Español

Lo que la bahĂa devuelve al cristal
Hola querida comunidad de #ShadowHunters
En esta ocasiĂłn vengo a participar en el cocurso de reflejos de la semanaen su ronda # 259.
Esta semana mis reflejos me llevaron hasta un punto muy conocido de la ciudad, la FiscalĂa Provincial, justo frente a la bahĂa de Matanzas. Es un edificio relativamente reciente, de lĂneas firmes y cristales amplios que miran hacia el litoral.
Fui hasta allĂ sin buscar nada en particular. A veces simplemente camino y dejo que la luz decida por mĂ.

Frente al edificio, cruzando la calle, están las palmas de coco que bordean esa zona del litoral, muy cerca de lo que aquà conocemos como la playa de los Pinos. Aunque, curiosamente, ya no quedan pinos. Ni aquellas casuarinas que hace años daban nombre y sombra al lugar. La memoria de la ciudad a veces permanece solo en los nombres.
Lo que me detuvo fue el vidrio.
En los grandes cristales de la FiscalĂa no solo se reflejaba la bahĂa. TambiĂ©n aparecĂan las palmas, altas y ligeramente inclinadas por el viento del mar, duplicadas en la superficie brillante. Las hojas se abrĂan como abanicos verdes sobre el fondo azul, pero esta vez suspendidas en vertical, contenidas dentro del edificio.
Era una superposiciĂłn interesante, la estructura sĂłlida y nueva sosteniendo la imagen viva del litoral. El cielo parecĂa entrar al inmueble sin pedir permiso. Las palmas no estaban dentro, pero el cristal las hacĂa parte del paisaje interior.

Me quedĂ© observando cĂłmo el movimiento del viento transformaba el reflejo. Las hojas vibraban suavemente, y esa vibraciĂłn se deslizaba por la fachada pulida. Todo ocurrĂa afuera, pero tambiĂ©n en el vidrio.
PensĂ© en cĂłmo la ciudad convive con sus distintas etapas. Hay construcciones que se levantan con firmeza reciente, mientras otras conservan huellas visibles del paso del tiempo. Y en medio de todo, la bahĂa sigue allĂ, reflejándolo todo sin hacer distinciones.
El reflejo unĂa lo que en la realidad está separado por una calle: el edificio y las palmas, la institucionalidad y el mar, la arquitectura reciente y la memoria del lugar. El cristal funcionaba como puente silencioso.
Quizás por eso me gusta tanto buscar reflejos. Porque no alteran lo que existe, pero lo reorganizan. Lo colocan en otra perspectiva. Nos permiten ver juntos elementos que normalmente miramos por separado.
En esa fachada luminosa, las palmas encontraron un segundo hogar por unos segundos. Y yo encontrĂ© una imagen donde la ciudad parecĂa más integrada, más armĂłnica, como si todo pudiera convivir dentro de una misma superficie transparente.
Gracias por mirar conmigo lo que el cristal decide devolver.
Hasta aquà mi entrada al concurso de la semana, las imágenes son de mi propiedad y para la versión en inglés utilizo DeepL Translate.
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