Scenes from a small town
Journalist-turned-innkeeper and pottery artist An Mercado-Alcantara captures vignettes of a vanishing provincial life with her storyteller dolls.
Journalist-turned-innkeeper and pottery artist An Mercado-Alcantara captures vignettes of a vanishing provincial life with her storyteller dolls.
Before anything else, you are struck by how absolutely cute they are, little clay communities of rotund people dressed in bright colors, congregating around a central figure—an image of the Virgin Mary, or a corpulent woman overrun by little companions climbing affectionately all over her.
Serendipity, I believe, is always God’s way of showing the world His assurance. All we really need to do is discern, accept and wait for everything to come into fruition in His time. Of course, that is always easier said than done.
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