Bañera de Flora / Ritual Bath, 2019, VIDEO RUNTIME 04:31

Bañera de Flora, 2019
The Walters Art Museum

A celebration of healing and rebirth activated by cleansing. A releasing of past trauma, sorrow, and injury in a sacred space. A ceremony created to elicit cessation, processing, breathing, and mindfulness. A performative act of vulnerability. An immersive celebration. An ancient feminine practice of ritual bathing. An initiation that evokes purifying the vessel, calming the mind, opening the spirit, and transmuting that which no longer serves. A restorative process. A moment of self fortification. A place for gentle healing.

2020-21 Mickalene Thomas: A Moment's Pleasure at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD; 2019 IA&A at Hillyer Gallery, Washington DC