Ay la hoyri peni cahii li cielo

Paniri volcano image printed in Ascii mode. Atacama culture’s belief that volcanoes are a linking bridge between heaven and earth.Paniri volcano image printed in Ascii mode. Atacama culture’s belief that volcanoes are a linking bridge between heaven and earth.Paniri volcano image printed in Ascii mode. Atacama culture’s belief that volcanoes are a linking bridge between heaven and earth.Paniri volcano image printed in Ascii mode. Atacama culture’s belief that volcanoes are a linking bridge between heaven and earth.Paniri volcano image printed in Ascii mode. Atacama culture’s belief that volcanoes are a linking bridge between heaven and earth.Paniri volcano image printed in Ascii mode. Atacama culture’s belief that volcanoes are a linking bridge between heaven and earth.Paniri volcano image printed in Ascii mode. Atacama culture’s belief that volcanoes are a linking bridge between heaven and earth.

Ay la hoyri peni cahii li cielo is the Paniri volcano (Atacama Desert) representation printed in Ascii mode. This work honours the Atacama culture’s belief that volcanoes or TataMallkus are a linking bridge between heaven and earth.

The Ascii (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) method of image construction allows a pixel of the image to be replaced by a text character, the text being a visual equivalent in greyscale. The characters used to form this image were determined according to the phrase "Ay la hoy’ri peni cachii li cielo", which in the Kunza language means "So on earth as in the sky", a biblical phrase belonging to the prayer "Our Father", introduced from Catholicism into the Atacameño culture during the Spanish colonization.