The Adobe Buffalo Project is an art installation, a community building project, an educational vehicle, and a shamanic act of healing and transformation. It is a prayer for the Earth and all beings.

The buffalo is larger than life, made of adobe, on the desert highlands of New Mexico. The construction method is adobe mud over a metal framework, with mesh support. It is a ghost-like relic, spirit of the earth he stands upon.

Symbolically, why buffalo? To honor the spirits of all buffaloes past, of all the creatures once here and now gone or nearly gone, since industrialization. The buffalo symbolizes the North on the Native American sacred medicine wheel: honoring the ancestors, spiritual wisdom and physical strength, and providing for the community. So this project will feed the communities today, visually, energetically and mythically.

Education is a vital part of the project. Information on the history of bison on this continent (an estimated 60 million once roamed here) is displayed onsite, and included in presentations. Current efforts to restore buffalo in their wild state, and treating the Earth as sacred, is emphasized.

As much as it is a cry for the past, it is an act of hope for the future: that we may protect and respect all life forms, our relatives here on Pachamama.

Aho Mitakuye Oyasin
We Are All Related

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Come and see the Ghost Buffalo adobe sculpture at:

La Tienda at Eldorado Mall
7 Caliente Road
Santa Fe, NM 87508