Sacred Chalma Wood Print

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Chalma has been known as a sacred and holy place since prehispanic times. It is here that a large single piece of obsidian crystal, in a cave beside the church's present location was revered by the Aztecas as a place where energy of the earth converged. The Spanish, observing it as a pagan type of worship, had the obsidian carved into a crucifix to create a so called miracle, or miraculously the large crystal turned into a crucifix. To this day it is know as a place of worship for the Aztecas descendants, and for those who have integrated the Azteca and Catholic beliefs and also the traditional Catholics. Next to the miracle at Guadalupe, Chalma is the second most sacred place in all of Mexico. Thousands make the pilgrimage from afar during holy week and Christmas.

Award winning Canadian Photographer John Bartosik, who studied at Toronto's Ryerson photo arts department was a commercial photographer serving corporate, industrial, tourism and institutional clients throughout North America. John's debut as a photographer initiated in Whistler, B.C.with the tourism industry. Surrounded by the majestic beauty of the Coast Mountains, John was inspired to continue his own personal photography, some of which was published in the first of three photo gift books titled Sea to Sky Country. By 2003, John embraced the new archival technology to prepare and print his personal collection of original transparencies to digital files through high quality scans; "The results produced brilliant, exquisite colour with...