Bringing the Pueblo into life diorama

Bringing the Pueblo into life: a diorama is part participatory project by Anna Keleher and Claire Long in which participants are invited to share objects/ideas from their own cultures with the prehistoric original inhabitants of chosen archaeological sites in U.K an New Mexico. This live piece is a ceremony enacted at the second preparatory station of the" The Exchange: Albuquerque" Detail of Bringing into life Ceremony Now she picks up handful dry yellow sand and sprinkles it around the diminutive village plaza....... Now from a box she produces tiny ladders made of thin sticks, rungs bound in place by fine Yucca twine. She carefully places the ladders against the outside walls of the pueblo houses....... Now she takes her drinking bottle and removing the lid lifts it high to allow a thin stream of water to cascade into the dry head of the arroyo. The water pools and shoots off downhill its wet tongue staining the parched stream- bed dark slate.