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By Caterina Davinio & Karenina.it
Gates is dedicated to Pierre Restany
ARTISTS - USA Austin
TX / Brazil
With: Regina Vater
I am sending you in attachment a digital
photo in JPEG of this installation I First did in 1997 in Austin - Texas and
which I will be doing again in November this year in Brasilia - Brasil.
Through the text you will understand how
this work is also a door.
"VêrVe"
by Regina Vater
Inspired
by archaic ground paintings (African, Navaho, Haiti, Aborigines) and Tibetan
sand mandalas.
"VêrVe"
means: Pay attention to "how" you see and also cames from
"Veve" the name for sacred ground paintings in the Haitian
cosmologies.
The ground paintings
are used not only as portals to the underworld but also as healing devices.
The
form and colors of this installation are inspired by the eyes on the spotted
jaguar, animal of protection for shamans of the Americas from Texas to Tierra
Del Fuego. The jaguar who sees though the darkness of the forest, helps the
curanderos/shamans/seers to travel through the night of the dreams and to
enable them to heal and help the people and spirits in need.
In
this work I use the three main staples of the Americas: Rice, beans and corn as
methaphors for the feeding powers of Art. And also to stablize this relation
between feeding, seeing and healing.
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