Huaca Huaca

We seemed to have stated that we've made our instructions clearer: first, create an Allegory of Prudence, second, take the tropes already available to us through tourism, and re-purpose them for well-being, third, concern ourselves with our own singular experiences. This has only made it more difficult for me. Hopefully Wenders will help me tie it back together. I am comfortable with the photographic medium and the camera apparatus (l'appareil photo), yet I'm not sure how I am going to represent something like a moment of Prudence with my photography. I could digitally manipulate the photos but I am not sure if that breaks the purpose of taking the photo in the Now and instantly uploading it. Also, I am not sure how relevant my Moment that I wrote about in the previous blog post is with this further understanding of the assignment. I've been wracking my brain to figure out any moment of any virtue that has impacted my life in the same way that Titian and Ulmer's lives were affected. Or even a time when I have been struck by beauty and aesthetics. Until I figure it out, I want to revisit a small note that I wrote about in my Universal Experience Notes. One of my favorite classes was Colonial Andean Art History. It was my first encounter with a world outside of North America and Europe. Up until that point I had been sheltered and uneducated about anything south of Florida. The Quechuan language, the quipu recording system, the huacas were all fascinating subjects of study. The huacas in particular were sacred sites of both myth and history declared by men. If these were sites of pilgrimage for the Quechua people and a type of tourism, perhaps I can use the tropes of the huacas and identify my own sacred sites in my local space of Alachua County. The huacas were not only sites but spirits, (daimons perhaps?)