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104 | Héctor M. Varela Rios www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/2, 87–106 cally (that is, theo-anthropologically) entangle Puerto Rican beholders (and by extension, all other beholders) with their own histories and identities in their sojourn as Latinx and/or Christian. Thus, a decolonializing interpretation using lo cotidiano forces the inter- preter to humility and self-reflexivity: imagine the audacity of implying one knows more about El Velorio than Oller!40 That is why a constructive ap- proach is so useful. Decolonialization has an opaque telos, so understand- ing depends on the beholder’s own experience. And even if any decolonial epistemologies can lead to further erasure of the painting’s encoding on the part of decoders, it is still forward-thinking in an ethical sense.41 However, this other “so-what” is less clear. Simply stated, once the decolonial change has occurred, what reality are we left with? What real-life implications does it have or produce? Have the powerful lost and the powerless gained pow- er? Is this new knowledge agentic enough to subvert kyriarchy? Many of these questions are difficult or impossible to answer. The work is necessary, though, and can be fruitful for rescuing alternative (actually, native) episte- mologies that colonialism destroyed or coloniality keeps erasing. Bibliography Abad y Lasierra, Iñigo, 1788, Historia geográfica, civil y política de la isla de S. Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico, dala á luz Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor, Madrid: A. Espinosa. Alegría, Ricardo, 2001, El velorio del angelito en Puerto Rico, Boletín del Museo del Hombre Dominicano 28, 30, 13–29. Álvarez, Luis M., 2017, Música y tradición mítica en El Velorio de Francisco Oller, https:// www.geoisla.com/2018/10/el-velorio-francisco-oller-c-1893/ [accessed 7 April 2021]. Barreto, Raimundo / Sirvent, Roberto (eds.), 2019, Decolonial Christianities. Latinx and Latin American Perspectives, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Benítez, Marimar, 1983, Catálogo, in: Benítez, Marimar (ed.), Francisco Oller. Un Rea- lista Del Impresionismo = Francisco Oller. A Realist-Impressionist, Ponce: El Museo, 155–214. Catholic Church, 1545/1848, The Council of Trent, Twenty-fifth Session, edited and translat- ed by J. Waterworth, http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/ 1545-1545,_ Concilium_Tridentinum,_Canons_And_Decrees,_EN.pdf [accessed 19 June 2020]. Catholic Church, 1994, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Mahwah, N. J.: Paulist Press. Cortés, Jason, 2012, Wounding Materiality. Oller’s El velorio and the Trauma of Sub- altern Visibility, Revista Hispánica Moderna 65, 2, 165–180. 40 For these two and other methodological implications, see Tuhiwai Smith 2012. 41 See Mendieta 2012.