MEXICO | Thursday, 4 July 2013 | Views [540] | View Smaller Image
On the road to Palmarito the reality of the Cochimí traveling this landscape by foot from the mountains to the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez is made manifest. What could the lives of the paleoindian painters that preceded the Cochimí have been like? We know that they traveled great distances to procure their pigments; that the act of painting was likely a part of ceremonies enacted to achieve terrestrial goals by supernatural means, dwarfed as they were by this vast landscape.
