cubic garden
Monastery of Santa Catalina is a mini self-sufficient city inside Arequipa city built since 1579. Owned by a Dominican order of the Catholic Church. Part of this city now is a museum. I hope you find one of your delight ;-)
Sunny Day
The buildings have colors so intense that the best time to visit the Monastery is when there is a blue sky. These ones were taken in 2012. As always I just walked to see and feel the game of light and shadows of the volumes. Be aware that in those years I used to saturate, not so much but my goal was to reflect what I saw, and to me with the blue of the sky and the golden light the colors simply go out of scale.
message in the light
tree seeing windows
special centre
volumes
I think this is one of my favorite compositions of the work of an anonymous architect. It’s just admirable the cleanness in the design in an epoch were there was temptations to saturate with ornaments.
three
plain in vermillion (pure)
I did a selfie inside the kitchens, I always wanted a portrait transformed in a being of light inside a black place (of course I’m far from being a creature of light mwahahaha)
radiance
I usually look like Moe Szyslak but there I like that I look more like I see myself, not so much detailed I guess.
Fire!
labyrinth
volumes versus lines
Overcast day
I found a pair of Argentinian tourists in Titicaca Lake, they asked me if I could show them the Monastery in Arequipa. Sadly that day was an overcast one and the walls, like the visitors and me, felt a bit uncomfortable because was a visit very touristic, I mean: to go and see and after that just see other place without much soul really. It was in January.
tres tristes trees
red dream
natural monochrome
old door
cuore rosso
two brothers
encantamiento en rojo
four dancers
Richesse
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overcast puzzle
a desire of outside
Despite its religious nature I find that this monastery for women has a haunting feminine delicacy, like the sexy kiss of a woman with intense red lips.
Séduction
sensuality
Thank you for your patience with the long post, as I was saying, it’s a mini city and this barely is a glimpse.
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