New Zealanders who return from living overseas often comment on how insular we are.  The first place where this is noticed is with the media, which tends to set the agenda for conversation and empathy.  During these covidian times we’ve tended to be wrapped up so much in ourselves.

This seems an appropriate time to search for meaningful ways to bring the peoples and cultures of Latin America into my life and into the life of my home and family.  Having Esteban help me add songs to my Christian Music playlist on Spotify was a beginning.  Then I remembered the artwork of his sister, Daniela, in which she gives an Andean and Bolivian flavour to the liturgical year.

This is a single, summary piece.  Each of Daniela’s eight individual pieces — on Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost and Ordinary Time — can be glimpsed within this one piece.  The art design is known as ‘Pallay’, an indigenous way of weaving with textiles.