When Volcán de Fuego erupted in June last year, just outside Antigua, Guatemala, ash rained on nearby towns for days. It covered every surface, filling the fissures between the cobbled stones of Antigua’s narrow streets, and remaining there for months after the disaster. Artist Hellen Ascoli had moved from her home in Guatemala to Madison, Wisconsin the year before. From that distance, both conceptually and geographically, she received a letter from her friend and colleague Camila Fernández, describing the ash, everywhere.
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