Chac Mol, optionally spelled Chac Mool or Chaac Mol, and pronounced ‘shahk mole,’ is an underwater cavern on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Its translation from Mayan language is ‘God of the Rain.’ Mexico has innumerable underwater caverns frequented by scuba divers of varying levels of expertise. They are fresh water caverns that do not house fish!
This second movement, which was in fact the first to inspire musical conception, will offer my impression of this breathtaking place shown through the astonishingly vibrant image of a single, underwater porthole. Again, in high contrast imagery, this photo reveals the physical foreground in black to actually be the image’s background, while its physical background in glorious gradations of turquoise and green with broad rings of reverberating sunlight, pulls the eye deep into the cavern, thereby becoming its main subject. Capturing the natural landscape and three scuba divers in silhouette, the photographer’s sense of line and composition asks the eye to choose between being guided forward into the deep or laterally to the right of the frame. The divers’ unmistakable silhouettes reveal this to be a place unwilling to support human life without appropriate equipment and experience.
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