Gracias…

Dr. Chanti Tacoronte-Perez formally completed her doctoral dissertation
Navegando Liminal: Rituals to Translate the Image of the Wound
November 27, 2023 🌕
Thank you for being present with me, or in sprit.

Here is a musical tour of the last couple of years, songs that, for me, spoke directly to the wounds, soothed them with care, and many that provided much-needed dance shakes and breaks between writing and creating! 

Here is a little taste of my Doctoral Research:
Wounding affects everyone, but what happens when the wounds are invisible, ancestral, or have been abandoned? Furthermore, when one accesses the wound, it can bring to the surface shameful feelings too painful to articulate. This art-based research examines the marginalized parts of the soul that have been repressed, overlooked, or abandoned—the wound. It suggests that through play, practice, and creativity, one does not have to follow the over-culture’s age-old prescription of getting rid of the wound, but rather suggests that each wound has a unique way it can be tended to. For this reason, this production dissertation developed a game to translate the image of the wound. The player is invited into a mandala of depth psychological practices, including active imagination and dreaming. In addition, it introduces expressive arts practices such as asemic writing, collage, song, and movement to explore the wound and, most importantly, give it a place to reside, outside of the body. The root of this work has no fixed results; it encourages one to live with the image—to form a relationship with the nightmares, triggers, and unwelcomed complexes. It holds the possibility that the wound, when tended to, can become a compass or a threshold.

Ongoing Communal Full Moon Wound Temple:
Because this dissertation welcomes wounds, I invite you to the wound temple: a simple collective ritual to honor the wounds. If you want to join, light a candle (even an imaginary one) on the next full moon to honor your wounds—known or unknown, physical, psychic, ancestral...It will warm my heart to know that the work I have been focused on for the past few years crosses the threshold into a more expansive communal space, with your participating in the collective wound temple. 

Rest well, dream deep y abrazos
Dr. Chanti

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