palaspas

Palaspas is a ritual performance created for the opening of Brown Palms, Yellow Balms, hosted by AAWAA. Rooted in ancestral ritual and diasporic memory, this offering calls in protection, presence, and gratitude. Using bay laurel harvested on Coast Miwok land to cleanse the gallery and gangsa to awaken good energies in the four directions, I invited spirit to enter and bless the space.

This movement-based invocation is a gesture of reverence to Ohlone land and the land spirits who continue to hold it. It is an embodied prayer—an offering to the ancestors, the artists, and the collective healing we are weaving together.