N/um

The healing dance is the principal ritual of voodoo. The ceremony is aimed toward giving spiritual and physical health to suffering people. While the dance progresses, it becomes more intense until the dancers go into a state of deep concentration. The dancer has an object, the "n/um" in its stomach. This "n/um" travels across the spine until it reaches the skull. There it stops and explodes in the brain. This explosion is a sign of rebirth. -Each painting represents the phase of the n/um traveling. The botanicals symbolize the n/um and get more intense within each painting. We see the face in the final painting to get a last look before the rebirth.