A professional artist, photographer, and painter, Javier Ruzo has studied at London’s prestigious Chelsea School of Arts; in Paris, at Cité des Arts; at New York’s Pratt Institute, and at the Massachusetts College of the Arts in Boston. Since 1982, his work has been featured in contemporary museums worldwide. When not traveling, Javier lives and paints at his home in Lima and enjoys the occasional trek to the mountains, inspiration and food for his soul. He is a featured contributor to the Award Winning travel journal, "Markawasi: Peru's Inexplicable Stone Forest".


"If you walk at night in the moonlight you will find yourself surrounded by a mystery - shapes that take you deep into your unconscious mind, to the very heart of great legends, you have entered a millennial theatre. There is a universal tradition about the use of stones for various purposes, especially religious, designating sacred space and the exact placement of stones. This is a mystery very much related to Markawasi. The Incas used older sites such as those of Sacsayhuaman, and Kenko, near Cusco. The principle stone in Kenko is encircled by cut stones pointing out an immense boulder that appears to be the remnant of a puma. Why would you mark a stone that has almost no form? This would be because you want to leave it as a ritual element, an offering, to the remains of prior epochs, to convey a mystery, or a truth. It was most probably a stone used long before the time of the Inca, and related to the existing sacred cave. All Inca sacred places have tunnels and ritual caves; all over the world we find the same story: the Mountain with the inner cavern; a burial place where you were 'reborn' in the purifying essence of the Mother earth." - Javier Ruzo, Markawasi: Peru's Inexplicable Stone Forest



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