Amanda Seigel
Dreams About Water
In what ways does water (through baptism, libations & spiritual baths) play into African myths of creation, cosmologies, and interconnected spiritually-holistic healing modalities? What are the ways in which sacred plant medicine was used by early humans (of implied African descent) to expand their consciousness and therefore make room for religious consciousness? What are methods of emotional release, spiritual ascension and wholeness in terms of African worldviews? African indigenous views of ancestors and time are cyclical, nonlinear and interconnected as opposed to colonized European views of their dead and their stories. I am telling this story, my own memoir, by asking and doing my best to answer all the above questions I’m posing, and accessing the information and support of generations past in order to do so at the crossroads of African mythos and logos. I am creating collages and writings inspired by them, and illustrating those writings as graphic sequenced stories, with arcs that weave in and out of each other, with no clear beginning, middle and end, given that the past is always present because our ancestors are carried with, by, and through us at all times.
