Excellent Condition This series arises as an artistic collaboration between José Angel Toirac and Ricardo Elías, after working together on the Orbis series. Working on this previous series, they realized that they could locate the places and the historical moment in which Walker Evans had made his tour of Havana. So they decided to locate and make a pilgrimage, a sort of Via Crucis, to 14 of these places, re-living part of the journey that Evans made in 1933 with the camera at their side, as if it were the cross. Elías would take the current photos from the same angle as Evans, and Toirac would paint the image of an Evans detail in gold leaf. Locating some of these places, more than a pilgrimage, was a true Odyssey, even full of random situations that ended happily. The title of each photo, in addition to being the address of the place, has a numerical sequence that is the date and time that Elias's camera took the photo. The detailed description in the title of each piece was necessary to unveil the magic of reconstructing a historical fact and the cyclical coincidence of the space-time factor. For example, in the photo of Elías in Central Park, he also has the flowers dedicated to Martí (on May 19). But the photo of the Capitol, taken on May 20, Day of the Republic, (which in Evans was full of people celebrating) is now totally desolate since the Revolution erased that date from the calendar of commemorative dates. Significantly, three of those places would be impossible to locate today because the buildings which identified them have disappeared, have collapsed: The one with the balcony in front of the Capitol, for example, no longer exists.