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13-MAY-2014

The test of time, San Francisco Xavier University, Sucre, Bolivia, 2014

A sole student walks his way to class at one of the oldest universities in the Americas. This university itself dates back to the Spanish conquest, and this particular campus celebrated its centennial in 2009. To commemorate the event, students painted murals on the exterior walls bounding the campus. I made this image from a tiny park just across the street from the university. I included some of the park’s decorative wire fence in the foreground to echo the flow of murals across the way. The yellow flowers behind the fence echo the yellow in some of the murals. These murals went up five years ago, most likely before the lone figure walking past them was even a student. Great changes have come to this institution and to Bolivia since then, but he seems oblivious to them. My interpretation deals with the nature of time, and the test it applies to the institutions of man.

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