Shereef’s Kiva Blog

With only three weeks remaining in my Kiva Fellowship, I have begun to pay an exceptional amount of attention to the unnoticed loose threads of life in Chiclayo. I believe that the potential people have for adaptation has the unfortunate consequence of casting the exceptional into the molds of the acceptable. Establishing normalcy sometimes means overlooking noteworthy idiosyncrasies, especially in urban landscapes with an endless source of … quirks.

I have photographed a series of them below and written descriptions for each – just click on the photo.

I decided to name this post ‘the apothecary’ because their presence has been the most ubiquitous and consistently disregarded as ‘normal.’ But honestly this must be totally unique: having carts with mortars & pestles, elixirs, herbs and steaming vats that can be used and combined into any kind of panacea on request, located at every street corner after sundown.

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10.17.09 – the apothecary

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