The Pyres of La Luna

At La Luna, in Michoacán, the agave cooking room is a huge open-walled chamber filled with fire pits, each bowl as deep as a man and several times as wide. When we visited, the pyres were being built – each in a different stage of readiness, with different layers and patterns. They trapped me in their wild sorcery. Such care paid to a thing that would soon be obliterated, lending its heat to transmute the precious juices of the hundreds of agave that would be sacrificed on their smoke and flame. This was elemental magic made tangible. Calm and knowing and softly foreboding like old mountains and deep waters. This large, very limited photograph is one of only three images from our adventure making Tristan Stephenson’s Agave Safari to be released as a print to buy, each in strict edition of only 8. This is a rare slice of a rarer adventure into the heart of the agave. Each photograph is printed on luscious Hahnemülle Photo-Rag stock, giving them an earthed, almost painterly feel and incredible longevity. My favourite stock for images like these. The border is printed, making them easy to hang either floated or with a window mount in frame-ready sizes. They are signed and numbered. And the price includes free postage within the UK, Europe or the USA. 60×60cm Unframed Giclée print on Hahnemülle Photo-Rag paper Edition of 8 Signed by the artist Free postage to UK/Europe/USA