Sol de Manana is a geothermal field in Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve of Andean Fauna in southwestern Bolivia.
It consists of mud lakes, sulphur springs and steam pools with boiling mud. The field is at 4800 meters altitude.
The tour van stopped there for 20 minutes in late afternoon.
In 1990 I exhibited an artificial yellowstone type national park of plaster mounds with embedded television monitors playing videos of plaster bubbling, pouring and dripping
at the Queens Museum entitled Plaster Flow. Although I had modelled my synthetic mud fields after
natually existing fields I did not expect to find such perfect examples on the altiplano. I was looking at real exploding mud bubbles which I had artificially
created with a compressor and plastic tubing in a liquid plaster bath years before and exhibited in an installation.
A 4.3" iView CyberPad tablet plays a video from its internal memory. The tablet is set in a hydrostone wedge which was made ahead of time. The animation playing on the tablet features a character who was video recorded on the boardwalk at Rehobeth beach in Delaware. The young woman in the video was given the name Goth girl because she wore black boots, a black blouse and black shorts. Her boyfriend was also wearing all black and had tattoos on arms and legs and pins piercing lips, nose and ears.
