Little Rugged Cross - Nicaragua
by Mark Tisdale
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Little Rugged Cross - Nicaragua
Artist
Mark Tisdale
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Photograph - Photo
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It's no secret to anyone who is familiar with me that if I stumble across a cemetery, I'll have to ate last poke my head inside for a look. This was the case in the tiny village of Altagracia on the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua.
While the rest of my group went to see waterfalls, I wanted to see a little more of life in Nicaragua, so it kind of made sense that I should get a little taste of death there as well. It was a quite by chance occurrence, though. If I hadn't wandered down the right street, I never would have seen the small local graveyard. Life is full of chance encounters!
This little rough weathered Christian cross was one of my favorite finds there. I loved this perspective on the hard lines of the cross with the wildly organic lines of the bare tree limbs beyond it. The contrast was so memorable. But even more so when one takes a second look and sees the organic textures on the cross covered in moss and the results of years of tropical weathering.
The rhythms of life and death in Nicaragua, more alike than different!
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November 25th, 2013
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