While traveling in Mexico I stumbled into an old Mayan city called Valladolid and the first thing I noticed was the walls — so I started walking around and taking pictures of them.

Several days later I decided to extend my time in Valladolid so I could print the gallery of photos that I had accumulated and build frames for them. You can watch a short movie of the process on the homepage. It quickly turned into quite a project.

To make a very long story short, these original frames were eventually destroyed by small termites that were living undetected inside the scrap wood that was used to build them.

All of the frames had to be thrown into a dumpster. The project was dead.

Later the following year I was going through some files on my computer when I realized I still had the original series of 100 photos. I thought, “Hmm…maybe I can still do something with these.”

So to make another long story short, I built this website, gave each wall photo a name, and found a company in the United States who will professionally frame them and ship them to you if you want to hang one in your home — they do not have termites.

These are the walls of Mexico. I plotted each of their locations on this map and the first one was Mamacha 001. I’m not sure that I have a favorite because I get something different from looking at each of them. I hope you do as well.

Owen