“Aquí se podría encontrar una cura para la angustia y la soledad de estar lejos de su hogar porque, bueno, era su hogar”.
“Here you could find a cure for the heartbreak and loneliness of being away from home because, well, it was home.”
While developing the Perú: Pachamama program for the 2015 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, we circled around the question of “Peruvian-ness.”
My experience in Peru is very limited, but I did catch a glimpse of the Andean country’s uncompromising verticality.