Somewhere in the Bolivian Andean valleys, Cairoma

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 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.

Nature Morte, naturaleza muerta, dead nature literally... Continuing with the grammar of Dynamic Symmetry: root 2 overlapping

Searching for an image amongst my negatives, I found these two images I had taken 41 years ago...

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)]

A murder of silhouettes: a collections of monochrome, semi-abstract images.

Listening to a song by David Ramirez "Stone Age" that bounced around in my head for a couple of days...

My fascination for decay and stability:two contradictory forces at play, as well as dark and light...

After Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin's Still Life with Glass, Fruit and Picture. 1924

Walking on the White Cliffs of Dover, looking towards France... The clouds and the Chanel