Continuing with my on going Imaginations projects....

Inevitably it is necessary to give a historical perspective of this yearly festival that takes place in the city of La Paz, Bolivia in the first week of June. 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 believed to have arrived in the city at the founding of the convent of the Mothers of the Sacred Conception on the 8th of December 1663.

Incubus, the demon of nightmares...

While on holiday... Inspired by Matt Mawson's surreal visual expression. ( @mattmawson )

An Andean lake behind Serkhe Khollu, one of the peaks of Serranía de Murillo, La Paz, Bolivia.

Inspired by Uelsmann's analogue work...

El Caminito del Rey is a walkway, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Ardales in the province of Málaga, Spain. The walkway had fallen into disrepair and was partially closed for over a decade. The walkway is 1 metre (3 ft) in width, and rises over 100 metres (330 ft) above the river below.

This is the first of 2 projects on Lake Titicaca in the department of La Paz, provincia Murillo. The lake is considered to be sacred by both Cristians and Aymara natives. In 2012, the Global Nature Fund nominated the lake "Threatened Lake of the Year", pollution being the main cause and the constant receiving waters; in 2023 the water level went down by 3 meters.