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Corpus Christi: Pelican’s Blood

Corpus Christi, Łowicz, Poland, 2024

We follow a girl, early twenties, up a station platform; her blonde hair plaited, ringed by a garland of flowers. She checks her smartphone screen as she walks ahead, her heavy costume: living embroidery, alive with roses. Next to her, a young man in rounded glasses, the contemporary imagination of a 19th c intellectual.

Through the ruins of cabins and kiosks, and billboards promising justice and redemption, they’ve come to where the pelicans offer their blood; to gather with banners and tapestries, on carpets of flowers; a small girl stares, as each scene’s recorded, inscribed on the cluster of devices of those crowded around.

Participant of Corpus Christi, Łowicz, Poland, 30 May 2024
Participant of Corpus Christi, Łowicz, Poland, 30 May 2024
Participant of Corpus Christi, Łowicz, Poland, 30 May 2024
Participant of Corpus Christi, Łowicz, Poland, 30 May 2024
Participant of Corpus Christi, Łowicz, Poland, 30 May 2024
Participant of Corpus Christi, Łowicz, Poland, 30 May 2024
Participant of Corpus Christi, Łowicz, Poland, 30 May 2024
Participant of Corpus Christi, Łowicz, Poland, 30 May 2024
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