Hundreds more Nazca lines emerge in Peru's desert, so reads the article from the NYT a few months back.
I had never heard of these earthworks but with the help of A.I, there are apparently almost 50,000 sites scattered around Peru and averaging about five meters wide. Over time they have eroded substantially but with the help of A.I, they've been reconstructed to give us a good idea of their forms.
Going to the NY Times front page and punching in Nazca lines into the thin window will open the full article which one can read as a guest. It's very interesting and worth a visit.
This civilisation that predated the Incas (200 BC - AD 700) left little else but these markings in the desert plus a few bits of broken pottery chips and whatnot. Why were they designed and etched into the hard desert floor? Their subjects were human and animal forms, but are straight lines incised into cliffs and valleys that extend up to 15 miles long in these foothills to the Andes. To mark what? Irrigation canals?
Wild stuff.
And finally, here is something also done while plugged into Nature, a study from two weeks ago, for your perusal. It was a crazy evening and in deed I felt plugged into this motif. A wild sky which the sea mirrored almost completely.
