These artifacts are made from nature, part of it, and most of them serve as means through which the Africans connect to God, who is nature. They are used for ritual, and as technologies for connecting to spirit and nature. They can't be locked up forever. They say to us, and through us, "get me out, Nature is where I belong."
Likewise, Africans are people of Nature, our spirituality is an art and science of Nature. To us, traditionally, God is Nature, and Nature is where we belong. We need to return to Nature.
The series is inspired by the thousands of African Cultural artifacts taken from the continent and currently held in museums around the world, away from its original owners. Most of these items hold immense cultural and spiritual value to us Africans, and is not just art. Most are physical mediums through which the indigenous African ancestors connected with the spirit realm, their ancestors and Gods. Removing these artifacts from their true homes disrupts these connections, causing immense spiritual, and consequent physical damage beyond imagination. It disconnects millions from themselves, their ancestors, their spirits, and God.
This is my ode and visual commentary on the destructive looting that has occurred across the continent for centuries. To shed light on the spiritual harm caused, by removing these artifacts from their rightful homes. These cultural, historical & spiritual items have been imprisoned for centuries, and it is time to set them free and return them home.
IN NATURE, WHERE I BELONG
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IN NATURE, WHERE I BELONG
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These artifacts are made from nature, part of it, and most of them serve as means through which the Africans connect to God, who is nature. They are used for ritual, and as technologies for connecting to spirit and nature. They can't be locked up forever. They say to us, and through us, "get me out, Nature is where I belong."
Likewise, Africans are people of Nature, our spirituality is an art and science of Nature. To us, traditionally, God is Nature, and Nature is where we belong. We need to return to Nature.
The series is inspired by the thousands of African Cultural artifacts taken from the continent and currently held in museums around the world, away from its original owners. Most of these items hold immense cultural and spiritual value to us Africans, and is not just art. Most are physical mediums through which the indigenous African ancestors connected with the spirit realm, their ancestors and Gods. Removing these artifacts from their true homes disrupts these connections, causing immense spiritual, and consequent physical damage beyond imagination. It disconnects millions from themselves, their ancestors, their spirits, and God.
This is my ode and visual commentary on the destructive looting that has occurred across the continent for centuries. To shed light on the spiritual harm caused, by removing these artifacts from their rightful homes. These cultural, historical & spiritual items have been imprisoned for centuries, and it is time to set them free and return them home.