An abandoned village in Spain...

An image added to my Pilgrim series.

A UNESCO Wold Heritage festival Inevitably it is necessary to give a historical perspective of this yearly festival that takes place in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. The celebration transforms and stimulates the social life of La Paz every year, emanating from a particular way of understanding and living Andean Catholicism. The Parade begins with a procession through the western part of the city. This procession is central to the event, involving 40,000 devotees who dance and sing in an offering to the patron saint. The dance has a sacred significance for the sixty-nine fraternities involved, which are greeted in the streets in a euphoric atmosphere where the music of 7,000 musicians resonates. It is so owe inspiring that it is rightfully a UNESCO Wold Heritage event (Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity). The image venerated with dance and music is arrived in the city at the founding of the convent of the Mothers of the Sacred Conception on the 8th of December 1664

An Andean city - part 2

My attempt to convey a contradictory feeling: the freshness of the strawberries in a new season with the dried leaves of the background in an imaginary cornucopia format

Starting a new section of Still Life projects...

I imagined my death this morning: In a car crash or by a bullet. I felt sorry for myself. I cried over my corpse for a while. Soon after I started talking of cows, of the government, of how expensive life is nowadays, And I felt better, a little bit good. I meant to tell you that I am really ill. As if without skin, hurt by the air around, wounded by the sun, by words, by dreams. An annoying devil has climbed on the back of my head and doesn't leve me alone. Ulcerous, rotten, I have to live crawling, on all fours, slowly, any way I can. [Jaime Sabines (1926-1999)]

Duality exemplified in this image: dark and light, permanence and decay, circle and square, symbolised by pairs: two pairs of flowers, two glasses, two pomegranates, one split in four...

Canary Wharf and the City in the distance...

It occurred to me, as an afterthought, to take a snapshot with an infrared filter of the already set table of strawberries. What seems apparent is the clear lines of the composition once colour had been removed as the image is transported to a different colour spectrum: the infrared.