Pregled posta

Marketing

During our last week in Bolivia we spent 2 days touring Lake Titicaca. Our tour bus brought us to a small town on its shores called Copacabana, named for Our Lady of Copacabana, the patron saint of Bolivia. The more familiar Brazilian city borrowed its name from this historic town.

The town is most well known for its Christian pilgrimage shrine of the Virgen de la Candelaria, also called the ‘Dark Virgin.’ Before the Christian use of the site there was an Inca Temple of the Sun, from which native pilgrims sailed to the sacred islands of the Sun and the Moon.

The present cathedral, completed in 1805, is the most visited pilgrimage site in Bolivia. It was built over a pre-existing sacred space where Aymarans used to worship. Now, every Sunday, a priest performs automobile blessings here. Drivers decorate their cars with colored paper decorations and flowers and spray them with champagne. The priest blesses the vehicles and flicks holy water over them with a brush.

(This was taken with a circular polarized filter that turned the sky a deeper shade of blue. Shifting the color hues after desaturating made for more dramatic contrast)

Why

With the best of intent, this photo documents
my love towards all the majors and arse-lickers
who are more concerned about filling their town
with cars than with people,
who are more concerned about giving our squares
away to automobile manufacturers rather than
to young artists and children.
Thank you.

How

15 years old toy car, body outline made out of non-blank paper, ceiling neon lamp (powered by Monoloculo Inc.), black plastic book cover, five minutes spare time on a boring thursday night and a sick world for inspiring myself.
Red-filtering in PS. Headcleaning in PS 'cause I was too lazy to use blank paper for the body.