Spirit Boats

In 2016 inspired by Finnish shamanism and the work of Jennifer Ewing, I did a Spirit Boat Project. You can read about it on this blog post.

I later used the spirit boats in an art ritual on Remembrance Day for Lost Species and wrote a piece for their blog here.

Here are my spirit boats:

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Five Spirit Boats
Five Spirit Boats
Bird Boat
Bird Boat
Mammal Boat
Mammal Boat
Forest Boat
Forest Boat
Mammal boat detail
Mammal boat detail
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Spirit boats on the River Ouse.
Spirit Boats
Spirit boats at dusk.

And a little video I made when I set them adrift on the River Ouse:

Spirit Boats from Alexi Francis on Vimeo.