I was invited to be a resident at Quillagua, a small town located in Atacama desert, during the last week of August 2016. The following posts describe processes, objects and activities that drew my attention while being in Atacama. This travel diary, already filtered by memory and composed far away from Chile, has taken the shape of a map where the desert is mixed with other deserts, where its images create repetitive patterns and discontinuous lines of thought.
Watching the desert from a line // Watching the desert from the car
Mining cars
Trucks carrying acid to liquefy copper stones -- Viscosity articulating the desert
Painted stones
In China, old mine pit painted in green
Trucks carrying acid to liquefy copper stones -- Viscosity articulating the desert
Viscosity articulating the desert // Stones that look like bones // People that look like stones
Some of these images were taken by Juan Troncoso
