The feria of las Alasitas begins on the 24th January on high ground in a central barrio of La Paz and last for three weeks. By the time I visited it on the 28th January thousands of dreams must already have been purchased from the hundreds of stands selling in minature form anything anyone could possibly want in the year ahead.
The idea of the market is simple. Consider what you need in your life over the next 365 days,walk in and buy it in miniature and wait for Ekeko the Aymaran God of abundance to make manifest in your life the purchase you have made.
What would you buy? The choice is huge, cars, computers, bundles of money, ( euros, dollars, or boliviana). Something more abstract, a divorce, or concrete, construction materials, or indeed a ready built house.
For the Solo Madonna there was no contest. The cubicle that drew her in was that which allowed any woman to purchase a new relationship. All she had to do was choose the cockrel that best represented the sort of man she wanted to make manifest in her life. How hard could it be to decide between the bristling red bohemian with a tendency to chase other women and drink to excess and the white feathered purist homemaker who liked to stay in at night.
Decisions, decisions, and only one hitch. A woman cannot purchase for herself , another woman at her side must make the selection from the shelf. So there it is, the future of the Solo Madonna in the hands of a wild latino girl. Some things are just meant to be. An intellectual type with charm and a penchant for fine living was reached for and delivered. Here he is...
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