YOU ARE MAGIC
In partnership with Camp DEOX, Arts4Impact is headed to Burning Man to create You Are Magic, an evolving, interactive public art activation that celebrates ancient Toltec wisdom and the power of collective intention.
You Are Magic is a codex altar: part sculpture, part whimsical social architecture, part evolving collective archive.
THE DANCE OF OPPOSITES
THE DANCE OF OPPOSITES
The piece features a relic of the Toltec Sun/Moon God, embodying the ancient Mesoamerican idea that the universe is created through complementary forces. Sun and moon. Light and darkness. Action and reflection. Masculine and feminine energy, circling, challenging, and sustaining one another. Their meeting creates movement. Their tension creates possibility. The impulse to act and the wisdom to receive. The fire that transforms and the quiet that restores.
evolving collective archive
Over the burn, Deox members and the greater community are invited to add embellished found objects, MOOP, and small artifacts. We aim to have a bunch of handmade, wondrous Milagros on hand as well. In Mexican folk art, “milagros” refers to tiny religious charms used for healing or as votive offerings. Together, we will create a living communal assemblage shaped collaboratively in real time.
The core rule of the evolving, collaborative piece is simple: anyone may add to the altar, but nothing may be removed. Participants may contribute to one another’s objects, reinforcing the idea that personal transformation never happens in isolation.
If someone adds to another person’s object, they must also write a short note beginning with the phrase: “Dear friend, I wish for you…” These anonymous letters are collected in a shared archive called Box of Possibility, which participants can revisit throughout the week for encouragement, insight, or unexpected emotional resonance.
support the build
We’re raising $4,600 to bring You Are Magic to Camp DEOX without drawing from any funds needed for vital camp infrastructure.
Trusting that the universe will provide: Jerry Isaac is painting the truck mural in Reno; Russell Berusch and Haim Mayan are designing/sourcing the scaffolding in Cleveland; Jacqueline is building the codex panels in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Grateful for gifts of any size. Small magic counts. All donations are tax-deductible.
Recent efforts include a multi-state GOTV art effort with NOW for the ‘24 election and an Arts Memorial in response to the July 4 mass shooting in Highland Park.
She lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she works with a team of local artesans, including Juan Manuel Ramirez Copado and José Juan González Yañez.
