Heavenly Music
Florencia Rodina 
Guatemala

The desert burns with the intense glow of the delicately crafted holy figures and the sacred drama they are re-enacting. Heaven – for fear of failing in its commitment to earth – holds its breath behind an impassive wall of pale blue sky and the silvery disk of a plunging moon. Angels, on the balcony of heaven or mixing in with other characters treading desert sand, are playing on their many instruments a heavenly tune of peace and reconciliation. Breezy and carefree, they are trying very hard to soften hearts and elicit response to their message. Harbingers of good news, they not only announce Christ's birth, but also accompany the lonely mother and her child on their flight to Egypt, and play pomp and circumstance as Christ enters triumphantly the city of Jerusalem. But wherever they go, the stubbornly faithful donkey, carrying his master, has been there before them. Heaven needn't worry, earth should rejoice; such is the angels' tune.