incantations for ancestral exuberance
liberation is an attunement from the future ones. taya mâ received this transmission while offering chant at a co-weaving timelines workshop with her dear friend Maryam Hasnaa & New Earth Mystery School.
luminous ancestors is a sonic attunement that emerged for my course luminous ancestors of earth sea and sky
earth is gift from crystalline springs, an invocation to return to essence...
art on this page is from the Dreaming Liberatory Ancestral Futures collaboration between Ani Ganzala & Taya Mâ, the cover feature of Interdisciplinary Journal for Partnership Studies, fostering cultural transformation from domination to partnership & prioritizing the advancement of human rights and nonviolence, gender and racial equity, and the adoption of new metrics rendering visible the economic value of care.
Ani’s piece Aruanda (above, acrylic) highlights the relationship between the Black Diaspora and botanical technologies for physical and spiritual healing, and their piece No mundo aquático dos peixes e réptais, nós sonhamos / In the aquatic world of fish and reptiles, we dream (below, acrylic) depicts physical and spiritual connection through black and queer love. Taya Mâ’s chant Solidarity (forthcoming) is a lovesong for liberation, an invocation of interdependence, and a call for collective care across realms, born from making ritual and offering prayersong for a free Palestine.
Ani Ganzala is an Afro-Indigenous visual artist, activist and mother whose work revolves around the love and spirituality of black women and LBTQIAPN and the honoring of nature and the ecosystem in which we live. Taya Mâ is a ceremonial artist embracing embodied, earth-reverent devotion as liberatory spiritual practice. Ani & Taya Mâ first connected on the sacred shores of Bahia, Brasil almost two decades ago. Their friendship and their creative work is rooted in ancestral dreaming, earth reverence and spiritual activism.
