Requiem in Portobelo


Medium:                    Bamboo, cayuco (hand hewn wooden canoe), dried leaves, fire and water
Dimensions:              20ft (H) x 4ft (W) x 10ft (L)
Date:                              2005
Location:                      Bay of Portobelo, Panama
Project Budget:       DNA

Description:  This work was located in the Bay of Portobelo on the Caribbean coast of Panama.
It was created as a healing ceremony for the enslaved Africans that died in the Middle Passage
of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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