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Juanita Stein of Howling Bells / Live at the Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle NSW Australia
Juanita Stein of Howling Bells / Live at the Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle NSW Australia / Thursday 10 May 2007
While travelling through the Altiplana of Peru I stopped at a market to buy some fruit and stretch the legs. I grabbed the camera as always. I shot about three people along the way. All I gave some banana’s beforeany calls for un solo un solo – which may not have come, but anyway. Then, and cliched as it sounds, i was stopped by these eyes. She was sat with her Grandma selling vegetables. In my disjointed Spanish/sign language – Grandma spoke little Spanish also and my Quechuan is and was next to zero – i asked to take a photo. No exchange of gifts, i offered, they didn’t want anything. A simple gentle hug and i was on my way.
An old work. A2 size.
I took this photo at a beach on Lake Washington that I use to hang out at every day during the summer when I was a teen. Now it is being dwindled down almost no beach as the property around it is sold and condos or office buildings take over. This tree, with no leaves left, just struck a memory of days gone by.
They are sisters… Juanita has her dads curly hair, Carmelita is more like her Mum.
After viewing the display of Juanita (a mummified child sacrifice discovered in the crater of a volcano) at Arequipa’s Museo Santury, I found these steps just off the main courtyard. The museo is housed in an old colonial building in the central region near the plaza de armas, in Arequipa, PerĂº.
Arequipa’s Museo Santury is housed in a large old colonial building just off the Plaza de Armas, in the city centre. On a hot sunny day (as many are in this part of the country), some time in the shade, away from the chaos of the street outside, was a welcome relief. The building retains its classic colonial style, with the central paved courtyard, with rooms and functional areas feeding off it. Whilst the building has been extensively renovated inside to house the museo, they’ve done a great job in keeping the building’s original character. The museo’s most famous inhabitant is Juanita, a 13 year old child sacrificed in the crater of a volcano to quell the Gods who inhabited the mountain. Her death is estimated to have occurred shortly before the Spanish conquest of Peru began, but her mummified body was not discovered until the volcano erupted in the 1990’s, and the ice encasing her body melted. Up to a dozen other corpses of children have been discovered in similar situations in the area, heavily populated by active volcanoes. Arequipa, Peru
Old, beaten up vehicles are the norm in Latin America, where everything seems to be kept alive for decades longer than in the 1st world, despite the rougher roads and less than favourable driving habits of some locals. Machines are held together by grease and rust, though in the dry regions of Andes, it’s possibly the combination of altitude and low humidity. Shot on the streets of Arequipa, Peru
All proceeds from the sale of this painting will go to the Giving Rose Charity; http://www.thegivingrose.org/about-us.php
Donated by Susie Schulze All profits from purchasing this work and any others in this profile will be donated to the Wildlife victims of the Victorian bush fires.
Taken down Brunswick St, Fitzroy Nikon D40X /
My retro – pirate inspired Juanita is drawn using black felt pen on paper then coloured using photoshop.
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