For my last post about our time in Chile, I want to tell you a little bit more about the area of town where we met the sand sculpture artist Joao Villegas. From where we were staying in Valparaíso, we took the metro from Bellavista six stops over to Viña del Mar. As soon as […]
Archive | January, 2012
Our friend the artist– Joao Villegas: his art and his philosophy
“You have to take a picture in your head of what you want to do and make it come to life.” I clicked photos of the sand art while Joao told Shane the story behind it. We ran into Santiago-born Joao while walking along the Acapulco section of the beach in Viña del Mar, just […]
El Fénix. (The Phoenix.)
Shane and I waited a whole TEN minutes to get these pictures at the Museo Naval y Maritimo in Valparaíso, Chile, right on the colorful and busy port. Of course, as our luck would have it, we got on line to take pictures RIGHT AFTER a busload of schoolgirls on a field trip from Ecuador […]



