An indigenous Mesoamerican myth describes the discovery and opening of a mountain filled with maize, capable of providing sustenance to the people of the world. Nonetheless, hundreds of years after this event would have occurred, we continue to hunger— physically, emotionally, spiritually. The images and text of this blog will relay my own quest to understand the world around me through observation and reflection on the people and places encountered during my wanderings— people also searching, in a variety of ways, to partake of life’s bounty.
I knew Delvis, the young boy shown here, for years both before and after this photograph was taken - from when he was a toddler until his late teens. Some months ago, I received word that he was gunned down in his barrio. With violence, crime and murder on the rise in his native Dominican Republic, his death saddened many but came as no surprise.