In the shamanic visions induced by peyote—a psychotropic substance—described in books like The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, the Peruvian author Carlos Castañeda often mentions the visualizations of ovoid forms, which the author interprets as manifestations of human figures in their primordial spirituality. Here, the artists use distorted images of a Carnival samba school parade to recompose such a vision, as if attempting to deconstruct a watered-down popular manifestation and return it to its origins in the depths of the magical, primitive mind.
