"only a fool is blinded by time to think that time only exists in the way we act upon it and with it: This is a recipe for spiritual and eternal confusion"
This performance film is a manifestation of gratitude for the past, the present, and the future in all of its abundance. As the sea snail leaves its vessel behind, the cowrie shell reminds us of the sea floor with which it crawled from its inception to its death. It is a story as old as time, the journey is always towards becoming, a devoted worship of all energies hidden and unseen manifested through the body as an unfinished vessel of knowingness and transformation
My/our/the vessel is a portal channel of connection with ancestors, a vessel of knowledge, carrying ancestral wisdom from the past to the present- A SEED. As cowries are seeds, our bodies are also seeds of love, reverence, protection, abundance, of mystery unfolding, that we plant through our choice actions manifested through time. As my vessel carries the harvest fruits of change, my work becomes ancestral transformation and healing. This film is my truest devotion to OBATALA, my ancestors, my mothers, my fathers, the past, myself, and the present. It is my devotion to time, actualized as a tangible change for the future unborn. ÀṢẸ
This film is a POLYCHRONIC TIME BASED collage of my performance "THE POWER OF CHOICE" at the Peale Museum on Dec 8, 2024