I have never been so excited to head off to a new place. I was finishing up some Maymester work the other day and had to pick a rural land artist to write a research paper on. A book with an interesting cover caught my eye in the library and I picked it up. The book was called Andrew Rogers: Rhythms of Life Project. I began looking through the images of some of his work and then noticed that he has done massive geoglyph land sculptures in the Cerro Rico Mountains in Bolivia. These geoglyphs in Bolivia stand as the highest contemporary land sculptures known to date in the world. Rogers has created geoglyphs in many different countries but I found it particularly interesting that he had created these in Bolivia. Rogers chooses his site based on the geographical vastness as well as the cultural history of the place. Bolivian workers helped Rogers to construct these large land pieces and they also had a ritualistic celebration before beginning construction of each piece. This made me excited for Bolivia because Rogers chooses locations with a rich cultural history and it is great that Bolivia stood out to him.
A project called Circles, that he has constructed to represent similar petroglyphs that dwell in nearby cave walls and are thought to be representative of kinship networks.
A Bolivian ceremony near Potosi where the workers praise Pachamama while sacrificing a goat and spreading the blood amongst the site.
ali, now that i am back in la paz with better wifi i can see what you were talking about!! what amazing artwork. thanks for posting.
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