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HORŠE HÍYYIS
BRÛLAGE CULTUREL MUWEKMA OHLONE –
FEU ET INTENTION À DJERASSI
Kalie Granier
Partenaires : Djerassi, Villa Albertine San Francisco,
Atelier SHLAt the heart of this project lies the cultural burn, or “cultural burning” — in the Chochenyo language: HORŠE HÍYYIS, the “good fire.”
This ancestral practice of the Muwekma Ohlone, an Indigenous people of the San Francisco Bay Area, considers fire as a tool for healing, regeneration, and relationship with the living world. Long criminalised by colonial authorities, these practices are now being revived in response to ecological crises and contemporary megafires.
The images were made on the land of the Djerassi Ranch, where Chochenyo cultural caretakers are reintroducing cultural burning to restore connections to territory and pass on ancestral knowledge.
(A) Le printemps