Meeting artists in Ñamarín and Saraguro: Part 3 – The Potter – Saraguro, Ecuador We conclude this InMyDreams-Grand-Prize-award-winning 3-part program with the wonderful work of Angel Lozano, a potter and ceramacist in Saraguro. Actually it’s Angelito, as his father, the potter who started their shop Ceramica Lozano, is also Angel. Angel the younger is taking over most
Meeting artists in Ñamarín and Saraguro: Part 2 – The Jeweler – Saraguro, Ecuador Antonio is a university student in Cuenca studying to become a teacher. He’s also a young jeweler with a home/studio/shop in the center of Saraguro (about 2hrs from Cuenca). Most importantly, though, he’s ALSO the focus of the second part of my soon-to-be-Emmy-award-winning
Meeting artists in Ñamarín and Saraguro: Part 1 – The Weavers – Ñamarín, Ecuador Yesterday Anner and I were talking about how often we are posting and it hit me that, even though blogging is an incredibly modern construct and emailing it out uses an incredibly modern medium, it feels almost like we’re writing a newspaper or magazine
Sugaaaaaar! : A Quick Post – Vilcabamba, Ecuador Today we got a sweet, sweet surprise! At the beginning of our Mongolian Horse Training Trek (i.e. our fourth time on a horse, for those who are counting) we passed this most amazing site! As a little three legged dog yapped at us, guarding a little house
Saraguro/Namarín, Ecuador – Homestay Time Man, oh man! After almost 7 weeks in Cuenca, it was time to take our leave and I admit we were a bit nervous about heading out again. Just so long in one place, we needed to get into the groove of being on the move again. Luckily Aaron’s dogged