Initiation by Paula Damasceno

Written By Susan Patrice
 
 

Initiation by Paula Damasceno

Initiation is an artist book of 26 Risograph-printed pages that brings text and image into a tactile sequence. Written across English, Yoruba, Portuguese, and Spanish, it draws together Orisha iconographies and mythologies with layered histories of the Americas. Risograph reproductions of original tintypes suggest offerings made to the Orishas by unidentifiable, and at times absent, subjects. Housed in a varnished wood and black velvet folder, the work invites a slow, ritual-like engagement.

Cost: $95 (individual buyers) / $175 (institutional purchase)

Exhibitions: Initiation (2024), Horace Williams House/Chapel Hill, NC,
Destierro (2025), Outlook Gallery/Lansing, MI
Collections: School of the Art Institute of Chicago Special Collections/Chicago, IL

To purchase a copy, contact Paula Damasceno through her website.

 
Susan Patrice

As the founder and director of Makers Circle, Susan Patrice designs and implements arts-informed community initiatives in partnership with non-arts organizations who want to expand their reach and impact through innovative cross-sector collaboration. Makers Circle has a deep passion for the power of the creative process to encourage adaptive change, expand awareness, and open up new ways of seeing and relating. We believe that the arts and artists should play a major role in community regeneration and non-profit advancement. Web design and digital storytelling are foundational to the work we do with non-profits.

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