Often times it feels that the walls of Antigua Guatemala are always being painted. I know some houses that are painted once a year or more often. If you walk around town, chances are you will encounter a painting crew working in a house or building. Now, is this color in the official color palette … Read more
Follow the white rabbit to » Antigua Artisan Triptych: The Mayan Weaver.
As I have mentioned before because of the high levels of humidity around Antigua Guatemala, people have to paint their walls often, sometimes in a yearly basis. Not every time walls get painted they use the same color and after so many years when the paint peels, you get the gorgeous texture where the different … Read more
About two weeks ago I shared with you a photograph of the façade of the church of San Miguel Escobar in which I included two people and a street dog as size reference. Today I shared another vista of the same church as it was being painted by church volunteers while other receive the Sunday … Read more
What makes art art and what makes everything else handicrafts or folk-art? In Spanish art is arte and handicrafts are artesanías; kind of like little arts. I wonder why artesanías is the name given to the stuff created by the indigenous people of Guatemala… I wonder. Can anybody help me understand why?