The Botánica aesthetic is full, stimulating, and abundant. It reflects the idealized spiritual space, a space imagined as an overflow of cure and remedy and spirit and knowledge.
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This museum exhibition opens at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, in Bloomington,Indiana on March 21, 2008.
What is the blog?
This blog was created to document the process of creating the museum exhibit Botanica: A Pharmacy For the Soul. From the first post we see the ideas of the exhibit developing, continuing up the ideas become reality as I listen to the words of my family, apply for grants, collect materials, catalog the collection, involve my students and the IU community, and finally curate the exhibit. Enjoy!
Some Things to Know
I realize while reading this blog you may need to know some of the terms used in the interviews:
Lela is short for Abuela which means Grandmother in Spanish.
Titi is short for Tia which means Aunt in Spanish.
Tio means Uncle.
Elias and Selina
About Me
- Selina
- Bloomington, Indiana, United States
- I am a graduate student in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington. Five years ago I began a project with my abuela, documenting her life as a Puerto Rican espiritista healer. Since we began I have made a short video about cooking Sancocho, curated an installation about her spiritual use of domestic spaces, and recorded hours of video and audio footage in which she speaks about her life and powers. Currently I am working with my grandmother to curate an exhibit in which we will create a replica of a botánica she owned when I was a child. This project is dedicated to my family.
1 comment:
I came to New York about thirty years ago to take a licensure examination to practice podiatry. Your grandmother gave me a seed to ensure success.
Needless to say, I passed the exam, and the seed has been with me ever since.
I lost it about ten years ago. Your grandmother guided your father to get me a new one in PR , and it seems to be doing just fine. My two sons also have them.
She does good work!
sb
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