Hola everyone! I hope that you are all having as much fun as I am so far! I am already in love with this beautiful country and it is only day 2! The landscape of Chile is so lush and vibrant and being able to see so much green makes me a happy camper. Today was amazing and was an experience I’ll never forget. The pre-Columbian museum that we visited put me in awe because I thought the content of the museum was very riveting (my favorite pieces were the huge wooden sculptures and the quipus, or the knotted cords that the Incans used to store data, in the basement of the museum) and the design of the interior was quite spectacular as well. I loved how Radic played with light (using both natural and artificial) in a very ingenious way to emphasize certain pieces in the museum and draw your attention towards them. I found it to be quite special and from the many museums that I have been to, I’ve never seen one play with light in such a successful way like that. The details and materiality of the interior were very cool as well. One of the other things that I loved doing today was traveling to Cerro Santa Lucia. I hope that everyone gets a chance to go at least once on this trip to there because it was so gorgeous! You were able to get a 360 view of the entire city and the vegetation and the old structural elements blended beautifully together…just please be careful when you walk up the steps, they are definitely not up to American code! I am so excited for tomorrow to see and try new things and I hope to keep making many more memories! Side Note: if you are not aware of this (the group of people I was with were not) please look closely at the moon…It’s upside down! :O
Esculturas Femeninas de Madera in the Museo Chileno de Arte Pre Colombino