The ritual was articulated through the sound of a rattle, a vibration that marked time and opened the space to the invisible and to dispossession. I worked with materials from my own cultural heritage: earth, rum and tobacco from Cuba, as offerings and tools of connection. The earth acted as a root and the rum as a purifier of the bodies and energies present, a vehicle of communication with the ancestral.
During the action, rum became the mediator of a spiritual cleansing. It was offered as sacred water, capable of dissolving burdens and giving back to the participants a sense of openness towards a new recognition.