Facebook Photo Albums Now on Iamwalking.org
Iamwalking.org has interfaced with the facebook photo albums documenting the project. To see many of the iamwalking project photos, follow the link below:
http://iamwalking.org/wordpress/photos/
Antigua Photo Series
Antigua church, outside of my Christian friend Kim’s family home and Spanish school.
Antigua Photo Series: Novice Monks
Novice monks line up for a procession near the Escuela del Cristo on the outskirts of town.
Antigua Photo Series: Kneeling in Prayer
A woman kneels with her hands outstretched in prayer. Whether Evangelical, Catholic, or one of the other Protestant lines, religious expression here is well…expressed.
Antigua Photo Series: Ruins
This is the church behind the main cathedral, joined to that which it was once part. The thing in Antigua, because of the volcanic activity and the earthquakes that come with it, is that almost all the buildings are in various states of repair, disrepair, and use.
The great thing about Antigua, as part of this, is that it also had the priviledge of being what the Spaniards thought would become the colonial capital of the Americas. So you have a relatively small city, that never became a large, polluted, crime ridden modern one, that has been preserved in a state of ruin.
Antigua Photo Series: The Cathedral
In Latin, the word Cathedra, litterally means seat, or chair. It is the chair upon which the bishop sits during mass and therefore implies that if a city has a “Cathedral” it has enough people and importance to have a bishop assigned to the faithful there.
Antigua Photo Series: Kites for the Dead
Originally this kite flying ceremony was part of a 2 day fesitival for All Souls Day and All Saints Day, culminating on November 2 in Santiago Sacatepéquez, a few km outside of Antigua. The indigenous community would make large kites decorated with family stories to fly into heaven where their ancestors could see the kites and find their families for the celebrations.
Today many of the kites are built and displayed by organizations, unions, and other groups, and generally have a positive message of sorts that they would like to convey to the community.
The kites are anywhere from 10 to 50 feet high and in diameter.
Antigua Photo Series: Kites for the Dead 2
Originally this kite flying ceremony was part of a 2 day fesitival for All Souls Day and All Saints Day, culminating on November 2 in Santiago Sacatepéquez, a few km outside of Antigua. The indigenous community would make large kites decorated with family stories to fly into heaven where their ancestors could see the kites and find their families for the celebrations.
Today many of the kites are built and displayed by organizations, unions, and other groups, and generally have a positive message of sorts that they would like to convey to the community.
The kites are anywhere from 10 to 50 feet high and in diameter.
