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[Art/Music/lit]
Date Posted:
4/3/2009
9:35:33 am EDT
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Exposition: "Mami Wata: Arts For Water Spirits in Africa And Its Diasporas"
Author: Holland Cotter Source: New York Times
Title: "MAMI WATA: ARTS FOR WATER SPIRITS IN AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORAS"
What we’ve come for is “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas.” If the title sounds a bit formal, the exhibition is not. It’s as rousing as a drum roll, as piquant as a samba, as sexy as Césaria Évora’s voice. It’s about glitter and tears, bawdy jokes and baskets of flowers, miracles and mysteries, money in hand and affairs of the heart. It’s about standing at the edge of the sea at dawn and watching a world re-born. In that world no one walks; everyone dances and swims; everyone, that is, who has taken the plunge into Mami Wata’s realm.
Who is Mami Wata? She is Mother Water, Mother of Fishes, goddess of oceans, rivers and pools, with sources in West and Central Africa and tributaries throughout the African Americas, from Bahia to Brooklyn. Usually shown as a half-woman, half-fish, she slips with ease between incompatible elements: water and air, tradition and modernity, this life and the next.
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| Classic | Apr 3rd. at 9:00:54 pm EDT
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Feathercloak (Grand Junction, Colorado) - Email Me
"Go be a Druid!!! " She is right on with that one. We have amazing tribal roots from our own ancestors and we should focus on those.
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| So...Above As Below | Apr 3rd. at 12:12:00 pm EDT
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Michael Welch (Audubon, New Jersey) - Email Me
With the upcoming astrological unions of Neptune, Chiron and Jupiter in Aquarius, we see the corresponding reflection in the sky of the creative imaginings in our fertile fields -- through visionary arts and practical applications.
I've always considered Chiron a representative of those experiences uniting apparent incongruous elements. One contemporary example manifesting is the technological advances in cyborg engineering and it's applications in veteran limb replacement.
It'll be interesting to explore the various forms and ways these imiginative and inventive "soul unions" emerge from our deep, resourceful well-springs!
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