Entwined, performance with Emily Sloan

Entwined is a performance of hair giving.  It was performed on November 19 (the Friday before Thanksgiving) with a group I have worked with as a Healing Artist for approximately a year and a half.  To bound our relationship even tighter, I offered everyone in the group a lock of hair they could cut off and keep as a memento of me and a passing on of power.
 
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Above:  We are discussing Victorian traditions of hair saving, exchanging and hair work.  In some cultures and stories the sharing of hair is a sharing of power.  Hair is also significant as a part of the body which will not rot.  

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Photography courtesy of Crystal Owens.