flotilla

6.4.06

Pratt beach, Chicago, IL

materials: butcher paper boats, beet juice paint, cocoa powder, cornmeal, tomatoes, lama fur, lama fat, beets, beet seeds, rice, oats, ash, colored sugar, cake decorating gems, astromaria, fresh sage, chamomile, rosemary, candy.

We created this with our Chicago community to support a ceremony conducted simultaneously in Austria by don Oscar Miro Quasada. The intention was to help heal the wound created by the colonization of the Americas. We imagined a fleet of boats launched with love, built a mandala based on traditional American medicine wheel, created a flotilla of paper boats, filled them with offerings from the new world and the old world, and launched them into lake Michigan.