The Americas
A battered old truck on utility lines duty Hurtles down the Asuncion avenues in an apparent hurry With the crew riding shotgun in stage-coach style They wave at the camera wondering about such attention Ambulance of communications rushing to save and to connect Photo Hugh Ardoin The Americas Gallery Hits: 9
Asuncion taxis are small personal altars on wheels Decorations and personal items clutter the cockpit You ride around the city in a time bubble of a stranger Looking out is the other side of Alice’s mirror Today’s special is a colorful moped motorcade Photo Hugh Ardoin The Americas Gallery Hits: 14
Just another few hundred years of solitude later Coca-Cola is the new American Fruit of economic neocolonialism The palpable fluidity of time waiting for the bus in a magic surrealist world Faces turned in one same direction in expectation With exception for the wise dog sleeping under the shelter Hundreds of years later José Arcadio’s […]
Along the bumpy winding road of your life There are places where you stop to rest But there is only one that you will never leave It has this special stone bearing your very name And quiet sandy alleys where tears once flowed like rivers Photo Hugh Ardoin The Americas Gallery Hits: 16
After the heat of a tropical day the night will come The has a promise to make your night even hotter A torrid sample of the flames of hell at a moderate price Damnation meets perdition as they come in for a drink El Molusco invites you to a thousand and one erotic nights The […]
Driving on Route 7 from all the way to Cuidad del Este The frozen road movie takes life as we leave Asuncion Speeding through San Lorenzo last of the sprawling city’s outposts Towns and villages unscroll in a window with a view on wheels The magic lantern of vanishing landscapes and cityscapes Distorted images dance […]
On a rainy day in the vast soaked fields of Paraguay along Route 7 The rainy season makes green ever greener than on the other side Braving the rushing raindrops a little girl in pink walks across the green Every other living being has disappeared out of sight seeking shelter from the storm An allegory […]
A teenager plays Joe Cool leaning on the wall Bored by the endless rainy days and eager for tomorrow Bearing his ennui on his shoulders like a brick wall Time will tick away, at first like a trickle Then as years go by it becomes a fast river And you will try to swim, back […]
Brisk business as usual on the bridge of freedom over Rio Parana In this exotic setting not only rivers and muddy waters flow The thirst for the Yanqui dollar keeps the roads busy From the huge open air duty free zone to Brazil and Argentina Photo Hugh Ardoin The Americas Gallery Hits: 7
Between the high chicken-wire barricade and the deep precipice The rock is the hard place, but the flow must go on Taking advantage of the all-you-can-carry rule Women and men make the crossing many times daily Taking the duty free goods from Paraguay to Brazil Photo Hugh Ardoin The Americas Gallery Hits: 12