With a stunning sensitivity to her subject, MacAdams vividly captures the Maya's
devotion to balance and harmony and their unique integration of time, place,
art, science, sexuality, and spirituality. Her use of infra-red film energizes the
stones and vegetation as they might have appeared to the Maya priest and
priestesses themselves. These amazing ruins are both the emblem and the
code of a people who pursued the incredibly complex scientific, mathematical,
and cosmological subtleties of the universe and the human psyche.