Monte Albán — Oaxaca, Mexico

Perched high above the Oaxaca Valley, Monte Albán is an ancient city shaped through the deliberate leveling of a mountaintop. Its plazas, temples, and tombs reflect a long history of ceremonial practice, observation of the heavens, and relationship to the landscape below. Walking this site underscores how orientation, procession, and altitude can frame human experience—ideas that continue to shape my understanding of movement through ceremonial spaces.