Initiation by Paula Damasceno

Limited Edition Book

Initiation is an artist book by Paula Damasceno featuring 26 Risograph-printed pages that bring 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.