Kauyumari Ceremonial

Taking the medicine of the Earth towards the hearts!

Be part and donate HERE!

Kauyumari Ceremonial Center honors peyote sacred plant represented by it's spirit animal the blue deer. Peyote grows at the sacred land of the Wirikuta Desert at San Luis Potosi, Mexico being guarded by the Wixarika Community, the most important and resilient cultures in Mexico as a country.

philosophy of the project

Kauyumari high scale sculpture honors the grandfather peyote and Wixarika Culture, cosmogony, traditions, and rituals through an offering of a Ceremonial Center, made in co creation with Wixarika Community as a way to honor and be graceful for its beautiful medicine and healing.

My first approach to this beautiful sacred medicine was around 9 years ago after my dad's transcendence and it took me by a gentle hand to overcome it.

Their cosmogony and rituals are deeply rooted in their connection with with Mother Earth and specifically the Wirikuta Desert and the peyote, making every year a pilmgridge as an offering for its medicine.

The creation of this ceremonial space is for me an offering to the Wirikuta Desert and the peyote for its magical medicine as well as a desire to share with every Burner the great importance of our connection with our indigenous cultures, their wisdom and deep connection to Mother Earth and its cycles and spread its medicine with them this way.

MARAKAME JULIAN CARRILLO - San Andres Comiata, Mezquití, Wixarika Community.

Kauyumari, blue deer at wixarika language, will manifest in Black Rock City Desert by a huge scale blue deer handicraft, taking as a model the one they do themselves to reflect their experience and rituals while being in ceremony at their connection to the peyote scared plant, the desert and their ancestors.

It will be a Ceremonial Center , its general internal structure is metal and outside materials used originally in their handicrafts as wood, fiber glass and glass beads. Also stained glass, glass bottles and mirrors as bigger glass beads. Led lights all over its body and internal symbols to display its magnificence at night.

The skeleton structure will be made of metal and its skin will be created with the original materials of its crafts such as wood, fiberglass and beads. Also stained glass, glass bottles, clay and mirrors as larger beads. It will have LED lights all over its body and internal symbols to show its magnificence at night..

It will have a huge impact in the middle of the Desert and connect with its spirit and medicine, while being able to go inside and up to it in various ways.

It will have a huge impact in the middle of the Desert and connect with its spirit and medicine, while being able to go inside and up to it in various ways.

Kauyumari will have access within the 5 directions at Wixarika wisdom. His womb, the Ceremonial Center, allows the spirit of the blue deer to give shelter to burners sharing its medicine holding ceremonies and chanting inside.

Outside's cupula has stained glass reflecting with sun light and led lights at night. Access by her chest to her heart, go up at a base at her head by marine ladder, see through her eyes and go throughout a window at its corona to reach its horns. Her backbone climbs too.

On one side there will be the figure of the marakame, honoring their place of great importance within their community, being those who guide the hikuri ceremonies, peyote in the Wixarika language, and contain the energy and space during them.

Access will be through the deer's chest to the heart, and you will climb to a base on the head by a marine staircase, to see through its eyes and see the visions of the deer.

Our Team

This is a big project that needs a good team of experts to be done.

LEYla brashka

LEAD ARTIST

Mexican multidisciplinary artist focusing for 10 years mainly in high scale sculpture Art Awareness Projects to raise awareness and make a statement about environmental issues that affect us as humanity, as well as creating artwork related to our indigenous roots that connect us with whom we are and where we come from. She considers that art is a great way of co-creating and interacting with the community and generate social transformations along with it and positive changes