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Incas Road Paintings

Series of paintings over a period of 8 years. Oil on canvas, wood, paper.

That sleepy afternoon I got off the bus in Catamarca in the Northwest of Argentina was a turning point in my life. I understood that there was something else in Argentina beyond European Buenos Aires.

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Nina Hatun, oil on canvas, 3 ft 7 in by 4 ft 11 in
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Nina Hatun, oil on canvas, 3 ft 7 in by 4 ft 11 in
Pickchu Nina, oil on canvas, 3 ft 1 in by 4 ft 7 in
Pickchu Nina, oil on canvas, 3 ft 1 in by 4 ft 7 in (detail)
Willka, oil on canvas, 3 ft 1 in by 4 ft 7 in
Willka Nina, oil on canvas, 3 ft 1 in by 4 ft 7 in (detail)
Killa Tuta, oil on canvas, 3 ft 1 in by 4 ft 7 in
Punku, oil on canvas, 3 ft 1 in by 4 ft 7 in
Pacha Phuyu, oil on canvas, 4 ft 2 in by 6ft 5 in
Llalliska Pacha, oil on canvas, 6ft 5 in by 4 ft 2 in
Llalliska Pacha Uku, oil on canvas, 6ft 5 in by 4 ft 2 in
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I felt the vibration of the landscape, the buried culture bursting from the earth. I found the fragmentary remains of the Incas Road and the vision of the peoples and cultures who once traveled upon it, from Chile to Colombia. The 14,000-mile network of roads built by the Incas more than 500 years ago became a symbol for me of a lost and disappearing culture.