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