HOOKS & TRANSCENDENCE: Jaguar’s Suspension Ritual

A Spiritual Flight at Sunset in the Jungle of Palenque in Mexico

29 May 2013

ALEX PEREIRO BARROS, Founder of Indigenak Modification Industries, preparing IMIX JAGUAR for the hooks.
ALEX PEREIRO BARROS, Founder of Indigenak Modification Industries, preparing IMIX JAGUAR for the hooks.

 

At Mexican artist Imix Jaguar’s psychedelic music & arts festival, baptised Popol Vuh Space Mother Ship, held in December 2012 in the jungle surrounding Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico. With the sun setting over the jungle, Imix Jaguar prepared his suspension ritual.

Unseen photographs from this series to be presented during The Third Eye’s exhibition in Berlin this June.

 

As part of The Third Eye’s new series HOOKS AND TRANSCENDENCE – personal journeys in flight…More coming soon!

Photography by Sophie Pinchetti

 

Preparations for the suspension.
Preparations for the suspension.
The magical dense jungle sweltering around us in the late afternoon, near Palenque, Mexico.
The magical dense jungle sweltering around us in the late afternoon, near Palenque, Mexico.
Jaguar's Salutation before his suspension.
Jaguar’s Salutation before his suspension.
Preparing to fly I
Preparing to fly I
Preparing to fly II
Preparing to fly II
Preparing to fly III
Preparing to fly III
Jaguar in the jungle.
Jaguar in the jungle.
The jungle at sunset.
The jungle at sunset.
Imix Jaguar's Ascension.
Imix Jaguar’s Ascension.
Sunset over the powerful jungle around Palenque in Mexico.
Sunset over the powerful jungle around Palenque in Mexico.

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