A graphic design of Iemanjá surrounded by white flowers and waves made of different colored paper. A white square sits on top of the page on the bottom right as it reads “On New Year’s Eve, thousands of people in Rio praise Iemanjá by bathing in her water and throwing her white flowers which get carried to shore the next year”.

I spent most of my life in the beaches of Brazil, most of them were in Rio. My connection to water is also my connection to the Goddest of the sea in the Oxum religion, Yemanja. Bathing in water also means bathing in her spirit. In this mail art I wanted to represent her and her connection in my life. She does not have a physical form so the biggest challenge was attribituing one to her, and how to contain such a power onto a small piece of paper. The waves around her grow out of the paper, because water, much like Yemanja, cannot be contained.