July 12, 2009
Oaxaca, Mexico
I was at the Centro Cultural Santo Domingo yesterday.
Maybe because it used to be a convent, it was quiet, peaceful. I thought about how much I liked the place for a moment and of course that maybe I should join a convent. But I quickly rejected that thought as I am sure that no convent would tolerate me yet the sense of peace at the place was comforting.
The layout of the place is strange, its all inter connected and it essentially folds back onto itself. As I walk through it, the place keeps on re-framing itself through the windows and arches. It is keep on folding and unfolding all at the same time. One minute you are looking at this one set of domes and the next you are seeing it from a different side. like an Escher drawing except you don't feel like you are lost. Every view is different, it keeps on presenting itself in a different way. Even though you have seen those arches, those windows, that courtyard once before, there it is again and just a little different each time.
I will post pictures once I get back from trekking in Sierra Norte.
Charlie Grosso
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