Monday, September 28, 2020

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Cilla Vee VIGIL: Prayers of Healing - installation. Photo by Juliette Buffard Scalabre

+ July 2020 +

 

 +  COVID-19 pandemic  +  Black Lives Matter protests +

 

Inter-disciplinary artist Cilla Vee conducts a 30-day VIGIL

in response to global sickness, violence and death

 

VIGIL: Prayers of Healing for the Living and the Dead

 

Cilla Vee VIGIL Final Performance (Cleansed by the Blood section) Photo by Fred Hatt
  

Sponsored by Chashama’s “Enliven NYC” grant award 

from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts

 

 

PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT

 

SETTING THE SCENE

 

HEALING RITUALS

 

SPIRITUAL WEEKEND INTENSIVE

 

CHROMOTHERAPY WEEK

 

CONVERGENCE


Cilla Vee VIGIL Final Performance. Photo by Juliette Buffard Scalabre


DEEPEST HEARTFELT THANK YOUS TO:

 

Anita Durst

Chashama

Juliette Buffard Scalabre

Hayley Ferber

Bryn Pennetti

Rachel Cohen

Chloe Harnett-Hargrove

Robyn Thomas

Fred Hatt

Janet Robbins

Elisa Faires

Trish Faires

Liz Lang

Chandra Shukla

Stina Anderson

Jocelyn Reese

Enno Fritsch

Linda Mary Montano

Rev. Kate Jamie

Cheryl Eugenia

Chad Becker

Kayoko Nakajima

Michael Evans

Judy Canestrelli

Marianne Giosa

Daniel Carter

Hisayasu Takashio

Keigos Coffee

Robert and Carey Baldwin

Helen the cat lady

and all who came to the performance

 

 


 

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CONVERGENCE

 

Cilla Vee VIGIL Final Performance (Cleansed by the Blood section) Photo by Fred Hatt


Now it’s time to bring everything together.

For the installation to gain volume.

The big assemblage.

 

 

Day 27 – Despachos


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ancient Peruvian sacred offering ceremony.

A prayer is “dispatched” – spoken into leaves or petals and placed in a mandala with other natural objects on a paper sheet.

 

Day 27 - Despachos. Dispatch Headquaters. Photo by CEB

 


Day 27 - Despachos. Photo - CEB Selfie

 

Day 27 - Despachos. Preparing the paper base. Photo by CEB



 

 

Day 27 - Despachos. Photo by CEB

Day 27 - Despachos. Photo by CEB

 

Day 27 - Despachos. Photo by CEB

Day 27 - Despachos. Photo by CEB

 

 

Day 28 – Mandala


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Circular work of art, emanating from a central hub, whose creation process is a devotional or meditational tool.

 

Day 28 - Mandala. Photo by CEB

 

The process of the Despacho Ceremony plus the form of the Mandala enabled me to fill the space, putting every material I had to purpose and re-purpose.

 

Day 28 - Mandala. Color banners re-purposed for Prayer Flags. Photo by CEB

 

Day 29 – Preparation


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 29 - Planning. Photo by CEB
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every detail. Ready. In its place.

 

Day 29 - Planning. Photo by CEB
 
Day 29 - Planning. Photo by CEB

Day 29 - Planning. Photo by CEB

 

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FLICKR ALBUM - Days27 – 29:

 

 

Day 30 – Final Performance


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sections:

Summoning Chimes

Despacho Daisies

Prayer Petitions

Wandering Souls

The Peaceful Green of Nature

Church Lady

Wash Your Sins Away

Cleansed by the Blood

Procession

Baptism / Despacho Dispersion

 

Music:

Long Gong – Tatsuya Nakatani (commissioned work – 2004)

Oils:

Environment - Rosemary, Peppermint, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree blend

Body – Frankincense

 

 

Throughout the performance, audience could view through the storefront windows. It was only on leaving the space for Procession through the park to the water that the doors were opened and the sounds and scents of my environment revealed.

 

VIDEO - Day 30 –VIGIL Final Performance

Video by Fred Hatt




 

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FLICKR ALBUM - Day30 – Final Performance:

 

 

Cilla Vee VIGIL (Despacho Daisies section) Photo by Fred Hatt

Cilla Vee VIGIL (Prayer Petitions section) Photo by Fred Hatt

Cilla Vee VIGIL (Wandering Souls section) Photo by Fred Hatt

Cilla Vee VIGIL (Church Lady section) Photo by Fred Hatt

Cilla Vee VIGIL (Cleansed by the Blood section) Photo by Fred Hatt

 

Post Performance Summary for VIGIL: Prayers of Healing for the Living and the Dead.

 

My performance was a culmination of a thirty-day vigil. Each day, I focused on a specific mode of healing or healing practice. From Breathing exercises to Sound Healing to the Crossing Over of Wandering Souls to Chromotherapy to Mandalas and everything in between.

As time progressed, the installation transformed from a clean, white tabula rasa to a giant mandala - a mass of sculptural paper, colors, natural objects and plants, written text transcriptions of prayers for healing - as well as medical and cleaning products and musical instruments.

The performance was a one-hour recapitulation and fusion of my thirty-day journey. An embodiment of each of my daily experiences, reaching its zenith in continuing to evolve beyond them.

 

 

VIGIL Final Performance - audience. Photo by Juliette Buffard Scalabre

VIGIL Final Performance - audience interaction. Photo by Fred Hatt

VIGIL Final Performance - aftermath. Photo by Fred Hatt

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HOMEPAGE

Saturday, September 26, 2020

CHROMOTHERAPY WEEK

Day 22 - Red. Photo by Fred Hatt

 

 

Color Healing Series.

 
Using the healing power of colors has been a practice since ancient times, with records found in Egypt, Greece, India and China from as early as 2,000 BC.
 
In 1989 musician Miles Davis released the album Aura (written and produced by Palle Mikkelborg.) Each song titled by a color on the light spectrum.
 
This week I set myself the Chromotherapy Challenge!!! 
 
Each day I will create a performance prayer that explores the combination of a healing color with the correlating color title track on the Aura album!
 


 

 

It’s time to add a splash of color to my Tabula Rasa … I get the paints out!

 

 

Day 20 – Yellow

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I had to summon a lot of energy to do this one justice. 

 

VIDEO - Day 20 – Yellow



Day 20 - Yellow. Photo by CEB

Day 20 - Yellow. Photo by CEB




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Day 21 – Orange

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Needed to get into it and find my groove.

 

VIDEO - Day 21 – Orange



Day 21 - Orange. Photo - CEB Selfie

Day 21 - Orange. Photo by CEB





































 

Day 22 – Red


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This energy carried me all the way.

 

VIDEO - Red – Video by Fred Hatt



Day 22 - Red. Photo by CEB


Also today … total downpour, absolute gully wash!

Earlier, friend and collaborator, sculptor Hisayasu Takashio (Shio) came to visit, followed by a strange bag-lady woman trying to escape the rain – I gave her my piece of Mylar and made her a poncho.

Then Fred Hatt came and took some gorgeous footage.

What a day! A RED day!

 

Day 22 - Red. Photo by Fred Hatt

 
Day 22 - Red. Photo by Fred Hatt


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Day 22 - Red. Photo by Hisayasu Takashio

 

 

Day 23 – Green


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So cool and meditative I didn’t want to move.

 

VIDEO - Day 23 – Green





Day 23 - Green. Photo - CEB Selfie

One of my original Motion Sculpture performers came to visit today – Judy Canestrelli.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 24 – Blue

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This one made me talk.
 

VIDEO - Day 24 – Blue



Day 24 - Blue. Photo - CEB Selfie


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 25 – Purple


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both Indigo and Violet. Several attempts to find my place here, finally finding it in the hands.

 

VIDEO - Day 25 – Purple



Day 25 - Purple. Photo - CEB Selfie

Day 25 - Purple. Photo by CEB






































 

Day 26 – Gold / Silver


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not officially Chromotherapy colors – nor on the Miles Davis album … However, I created my own songs to gold and silver biblical texts.

 

VIDEO - Day 26 – Gold + Silver




 

Day 26 - Gold + Silver. Photo - CEB Selfie

Day 26 - Gold + Silver. Photo by CEB

Then Daniel Carter and Marianne Giosa appeared! Dear friends and collaborators in many adventures. Muse-ical havoc ensued on the pavement outside the gallery!



























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FLICKR ALBUM - Chromotherapy Days 23 – 26:

 
 
Day 26 - Gold + Silver. Photo by CEB
 
 
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Piers 6 and 5. Photo by Fred Hatt

 
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