Seattle Art Museum's Peru: Kingdoms of the sun and the moon exhibit

By Jack Brummet, Art Ed.

This was a fascinating show of rarely seen sculpture, metalwork, painting and textiles spanning the last 3,000 years, and including work from the Mochica, Chimu and Inca cultures.   There was also a lot of detail on archaelogy, artifact preservation, and especially on the "discovery," reasurrection and preservation of Machu Picchu.  It is varied across the arts, and is especially heavy on ancient (1st to5th century) ceramics, most of which as the best preserved I have ever seen.  Many of the pieces do not even include one hairline crack.

As the show progresses, the art shifts during the Colonial and Vice-royal eras as Christianity seeps in (travelling, we've seen this same phenomena in both Turkey and Colombia).  Finally the show progresses into the modern era, and you see both contemporary and indigenous-focused painting.

I lived the gold and jade chalice and the arms golden gloves

The triple deity (father, son, holy ghost)

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More photos from Cardagena's Getsemani neighborhood

By Jack Brummet, S.American Travel Ed.

[click images to enlarge]

This cart was loaded with about 20-25 sacks

of concrete that had to weigh about 100 pounds

 each.  He was moving Very Slow - like maybe

about half a mile per hour.

sign at a protest by teachers and students

a fantastic shop with old nautical artifacts

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Photos from the drive through Chicamaca Canyon

By Jack Brummet, Travel Ed.

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Posts and photos from Colombia

By Jack Brummet, S.A. Travel Ed.

Here are links to the posts--with mainly photographs--I made from Colombia last month (November, 2013).

Photos from the drive through Chicamaca Canyon
Random photos from Bogota
Police in Colombia
Faces No. 547 - Colombia
Police roadblocks in Colombia
Sand in my boots in Colombia
Fellow travellers in Colombia, November 2013
Photos from Cartagena: flower stall
Walls in Cartagena's Gethsemene neighborhood
Colombia photographs: boats along the Palomino/La Matuy beach
"Japanese" glass floats on the Caribbean
Witch Interrogation in Cartagena
Signs we saw in Colombia, Part 1
Signs we saw in Colombia, Part 2
Signs we saw in Colombia, Part 3
Photographs from our rooftop in San Gil, Colombia
Aviophobia/fear of flying part 7 - Poem: The trouble with flying
Meeting the Scouts in Bogota
The Botero Museum in Bogota
Photographs from Bogota's Museo del Oro
Some photos from Cardagena's walled old city

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Photographs from our rooftop in San Gil, Colombia

By Jack Brummet, South America Travel Ed.

A buzzard/vulture flying under the rainbow from a distant shower

the tile along our rooftop at the VIP hostel

if you zoom in almost dead center, you can see the giant white cross on the hill

note the "bombolinos" on the roof below

our building's wiring mast: dozens of fascinating (and a little scary) repairs and splices

The beautiful, tranquil town square, and site of a massive and loud fiesta our first two days in San Gil

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