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Installed in 2000, by artist Sergio Bustamante, this is one of the most popular statues on the Puerto Vallarta Malecon.

When strolling along the Malecón, you’ll be sure to notice this inviting piece of artwork due to the crowds of people who climb up its ladder for the perfect photo op. This monumental sculpture, featuring three curious figures climbing a ladder into the heavens, towers over the others at almost 60 feet high.

Bustamante, a famous Mexican artist, channeled his inspiration for the piece from Nobel Peace Prize winner, Bertrand Russell, who often wrote about the convictions of man. “Searching for Reason” represents man’s misguided approach to protecting life on earth through wars, atomic bombs, fear and prejudice.

Photography has always been my passion, since I developed my first print, under a dim red light bulb in our basement, at about age ten in the small mining town of Ishpeming, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan's Iron Ore Range. This love was also greatly inspired and nurtured by our dear and close family friend, the Family Doctor that brought me into this world, Dr. J. P. Bertucci. I dedicate this website to him, along with my parents, who always encouraged my photographic endeavors. I know they would be all proud. I have pursued the hobby of Photography with varying highs and lows of intensity all of my formative years and my adult life. For much of my working life, my camera sat on the top shelf of the closet, as life crowded it...