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The photos below were taken one morning on a cloudy day in a village about an hours drive from the lake. I chose that corner for no other reason than that I found the peace symbol curious and the image an interesting illustration of the mundane.

I doubt few people from the village know what a peace symbol is. Indeed, I would be surprised if the graffiti artist himself knows what it stands for. It's something from our culture, not theirs.

What was a Western icon doing in Mayan graffiti? Why did some young vandal with a blank pallet and a can of spray paint decide on that particular image at that particular moment?

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