Day one hundred and fifty-three: This afternoon I took the iPad to the Ollantaytambo sun temple and started looking for something I thought I could draw relatively quickly. I ended up sitting on a terrace across from my favorite wall in the complex, which as far as I can tell, faces the rising sun of the winter solstice (less than 20 days from today in the southern hemisphere). Since I usually draw from a camera snapshot, my on-the-spot sketch was a challenge: the sun kept changing and thus so did the shadows. By the time I finished my session, the shadows in the doorway — the original entrance to the sun temple — had completely changed. My favorite part of the wall are the bumps purposefully left during the carving of the giant stones. At times they cast long shadows across the wall, but I included shorter shadows here. The smooth stones are all different shapes, and carved to fit together perfectly. Amazing!!
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