Photographs gathered during a twelve-year journey through Colombia, in a search for truly generic photographs of the country. As the collection grew, a vision emerged that was at once closer to Europe and infinitely more mysterious than imagined; mixing the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries forces time to fold in on itself. The sensual orchid is one of Colombia's national symbols; the cow, placid and generous, is a symbol of nothing; and the place between the two, like photography, is ambiguous. A nation emerges where image-making pulses like a fiesta in which everyone can take part. Subtitle: Generic Colombian Photography.