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.

A few 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, it was later discovered that small termites had been living undetected inside the scrap wood that was used to build these original frames. The termites destroyed the frames and I had to throw all of them into a garbage dumpster.

It was disappointing but I still had the experience of the project saved in my memories and that was all that really mattered to me. So I laughed and moved on.

But 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 a name, and found a company in the United States that will frame them and ship them to you if you want to hang one in your home. The price of the frames is what the print company charges me and as far as I know they’re not infested with termites.

So yeah…these are the walls of Mexico. I plotted the location of each photo on this map. The first one is called Mamacha 001 and was taken at the hostel where I stayed the entire time I was in Valladolid. I’m not sure that I have a favorite photo because I get something different when I look at each of them. I hope you do as well.

Owen