And the This week is very much a video week. I am in Pukalpa, which is actually a city I quite like in the Peruvian Amazon,

and I have a few days here in between the Iowasca retreat in Ecuador and heading back out into the Amazon for a full

Dieter in a couple of days.

And one of the things I didn't manage to do last time I was here because I was literally here for basically an afternoon and an evening before heading into the jungle was to visit Pablo Amaringo'sary or Amazonian Art School.

And you probably know, I guess, if you're a regular

to the show, he's my favorite artist.

And I even have a sort of Amaringo print gallery in my house. I like to joke that we have like the southern most or the largest Amaringo collection in Tasmania, which is true I guess because we have the only Amaringo

collection in Tasmania and I want to be clear these are prints right like

Pablo's work is now obviously he's been dead for about 15 years but even had he not his paintings are a little bit above my art price range right?

Even with that not the case his paintings are a little bit above.

A little bit above my art price range right so I got to visit his school through a

series of kind of happy accidents with this medical student that I met at the hotel and all this kind of usual magic stuff, right?

So I got myself both a translator and someone with skills above my zero skills in Spanish to make the arrangements.

And not just that, I got given the tour by Pablo's son Juan.

So that was extra special.

Juan himself is an artist, so I got to see some of one's art as well as

some of his father's originals and some of his student art and I got to talk about

and discuss and ask questions about the, I guess,

Amazonian Kurandarizmo and shamanism

cosmovision.

So this is why this is a video one, right?

Like this audio is really just here to introduce the fact that if

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