Wa[sa]bi Sabi

the aesthetic of the impermanence.

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Naga goddess

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Naga goddess.

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Self portrait

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Shamans the world over must undergo initiatory ecstasy to manifest their call to office and to validate their vocation and supernatural power to themselves and to their society (Eliade 1964-:35). South American shamans also undergo ritual ordination and experience symbolic death, both essential stations on the arduous road to shamanism on the continent as elsewhere. Familiarity with death as a gateway to life on a different plane of existence is what sets the shaman apart from the average person. Thus, shamans arc frequent travelers across the threshold between life and death and, beginning with the initiatory "dismemberment" and contemplation of their own "death," they "die" repeat-edly in the course of their praxis.

Quote from the book Tobacco and shamanism in south America

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Are those snakes around your neck?

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These ropes look like snakes,

Those flower like blood.

Why don't you look at me?

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Kali obsession. Love and death.

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Obsession kali. Eros & thanatos

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Working on kali. The goddess of death and transformation

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