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nmonteith

5-Dec-2012
3:26:21 PM

No - that is painted onto the rock. It's in Colorado somewhere. I forget the place...

kieranl

5-Dec-2012
3:30:57 PM

There's this new-fangled interweb thingy.... Penitente Canyon

There is a painting of the Virgin Guadalupe part way up one of the rock faces - Virgin Wall. The sign by the picnic area says that it was painted somewhere between 1940 and 1980 (wide range) by 3 local men. Two of them signed the rock near the bottom and there's a faint inscription around the virgin saying "Consuelo y Espiritu" (Comfort and Courage). The locals have this story: "Around 1937, some members of the Penitente Brotherhood roped up and painted the Madonna on there on the wall." The devout artists sat in tires suspended by a cord, painting an image for its secretive followers.


shortman

5-Dec-2012
3:39:34 PM

On 5/12/2012 nmonteith wrote:
>No - that is painted onto the rock. It's in Colorado somewhere. I forget
>the place...

I stand corrected.


Macciza

5-Dec-2012
3:48:57 PM

On 4/12/2012 martin_austrALia wrote:
>Not trying to be patronising, but

Really, if it only it were that simple . . ..

Seriously there are a lot more factors than just that . . .

dalai

5-Dec-2012
3:53:26 PM

On 5/12/2012 kieranl wrote:
>Penitente Canyon


Miguel75

5-Dec-2012
6:55:23 PM

On 5/12/2012 Big G wrote:
>>what's the weird mural painted on the left hand face?
>
>looks like evil knievel

Spaceman Spliff?

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