Installations
PrayerStream Flag Installation has been featured in galleries, at Festivals, Public Markets, Malls, Weddings, retreats and forests across Canada. When we first hung the flags outside, they created a gentle enclosure in the forest which had a sense of celebration and peace. We didn’t have a word for it. It just felt good. And after spending a weekend among the flags, we felt healed and nurtured. We called the project Kinship Flags.
I have come to understand that the flags have a resonate field of their own which is cultivated by the ritual of hanging them repeatedly, the prayers of the people who made them, the energy of the symbols and colours of the fabric and ink, and the stories of the images they carry.
You can hire me and my team to hang the PrayerStream Installation at your event, wedding, or gathering place.
About PrayerStream Installation
PrayerStream is a rolling collection of thousands of feet of flags with images of creatures and beings of the earth, sacred to those who made them. The PrayerStream installation gets hung at festivals, youth camps, ceremonies, workshops, truth and reconciliation gatherings, land protection actions, birthday parties, mall events, and sometimes just because.
Each strand is a fractal of the whole. Each flag holds prayers of life at the centre, grounded in love, protection of innocence, gratitude to the natural world, gratitude for ancestors, and great spirit. We are all related. We are all connected.
The Tibetan Buddhist Prayer Flags are prayers for the Earth. Their colours correspond to the five elements water, air, earth, fire, and ether and it is said that as they age and weather the prayers are dispersed around the world. Kinship flags are similar. We feel that they are amplification devices and holographic reflectors of the sacred. We boldly fly our flags and shout out to the world that we love this Earth and cosmos. We raise our flags in honour of beauty, life, healing, truth, natural law, and freedom!
"the resonate field of these flags is astonishing"
– Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, Biologist, Author, Director of Studies in Cell Biology at Cambridge University
Galleries and Public Spaces
Vertical Panel Screen Prints featured at Gibsons Public Art Gallery 2024, large-scale installation at Gibsons Public Market, and Installation for Sunshine Coast Art Crawl at Sunnycrest Mall.
Festivals and Events
These images feature the PrayerStream flag collection at the BC Buddhist Festival Vancouver BC 2016, Revival Festival Vashon Island Washington 2018, Transformative Learning Centre 20th Anniversary Momentum Gathering 2013, Soul Revival Shakedown Community Party in Pandora Park Vancouver BC 2016.