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| 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.
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| Day 27 - Despachos. Dispatch Headquaters. Photo by CEB |
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| Day 27 - Despachos. Photo - CEB Selfie |
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| Day 27 - Despachos. Photo by CEB |
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| Day 27 - Despachos. Photo by CEB |
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| Day 27 - Despachos. Photo by CEB |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Day 28 - Mandala. Color banners re-purposed for Prayer Flags. Photo by CEB |
Day 29 – Preparation
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| Day 29 - Planning. Photo by CEB |
Every detail. Ready. In its place.
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| Day 29 - Planning. Photo by CEB |
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| Day 29 - Planning. Photo by CEB |
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| Day 29 - Planning. Photo by CEB |
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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:
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| Cilla Vee VIGIL (Despacho Daisies section) Photo by Fred Hatt |
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| Cilla Vee VIGIL (Prayer Petitions section) Photo by Fred Hatt |
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| Cilla Vee VIGIL (Wandering Souls section) Photo by Fred Hatt |
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| Cilla Vee VIGIL (Church Lady section) Photo by Fred Hatt |
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| 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.
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| VIGIL Final Performance - audience. Photo by Juliette Buffard Scalabre |
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| VIGIL Final Performance - audience interaction. Photo by Fred Hatt |
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| VIGIL Final Performance - aftermath. Photo by Fred Hatt |
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