Moray Ampitheatre, Peru - 12 May 2018 This mysterious set of terraces is actually a masterpiece of ancient Incan agronomy. It is located on a plateau

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Moray Ampitheatre, Peru - 12 May 2018 This mysterious set of terraces is actually a masterpiece of ancient Incan agronomy. It is located on a plateau to the NW of Cuzco. Recent research shows that it was constructed in such a way as to simulate Peruvian microclimates and test how these should best be planted with food crops, The concentric shapes in the ampitheatre are so abstract that I decided to post-process, fold and overlay them to produce these surreal

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