Kuweni | Public figure
Kuweni
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25.01.2022 I am a part of The Sunshine Coast Natural Dyers Group (SCNDIG), it is a privilege to be exhibiting among the other natural dyeing artists. It’s a beautifully curated exhibition with art work exclusively created with plant and earth pigments. This year we are exhibiting from the 19th of September to the 12th of October at the Arts and Ecology Centre, Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Gardens. ... Presented as part of the Sunshine Coast Council's fabric SLOW FASHION | ARTFUL LIVING program in partnership with Creative Spaces.
19.01.2022 Jessica Brown gave me the pleasure of holding the vision and creating this beautiful morning tea. I am so thankful Jess trusted me with a blank canvas to work on for my people on our mountain. Some beautiful connections were made and many more to come. I am honored to be holding the vision of cultural regeneration through this project with Jess who birthed this project many moons ago...
18.01.2022 I N I T I A T I O N I am a wild woman walking this wild river, the running river of Beechmont. Today I was initiated in to the flow of the river, the flowing waters of back creek. To her I went with my prayers and dreams. The yantra of the river was painted with ink on paper bark, activated with my mantra and the tantra was my immersion in the river. Yantra, mantra and Tantra are key parts in my living embodied arts practice. Today I let the river hold, caress and flow t...hrough me . I am beginning to understand and learn her ways, her creativity, currency, community and culture. I am longing to be with her, to be one with her to understand my inner river. I trust and surrender to her in devotion as she is to the Sea. See more
13.01.2022 R E F L E C T I O N S ~ Running Rivers ~ Flow within the body I broke fast from a 3 day fast yesterday, in that time I only had water and no food. In the past I have failed many diets, many body training regimes and many efforts to tame my will. ... This time what was different is that this came to me from deep inquiry. It was a prayer, a longing and a devotion to be in flow within my body. The truth of the matter is that my body thrives in times of famine. In the last 3 days my mind had the ability to think like water. The thoughts were just flowing like the river, there was no mental entropy. The flow within the body is not independent, the mind is always involved. This was certainly a lived experience of the connection and understanding the energy and matter within my borrowed vessel I now call my body or more appropriately my temple. In this age whilst there’s an abundance of food available it’s about being conscious about how much my body needs. I now know that I have to seasonally allow time to listen to my body and it’s flow, for this season I know I only need one meal a day to allow Thrivability. This also made me realise it’s not just about taming the will, it’s facilitating a meeting between the will and the consciousness. #letlifebeart #runningrivers
12.01.2022 L O N G I N G T O B E L O N G As a migrant who crossed the seas for better pastures I longed for belonging for years. In this becoming of Australian I traded my sense of self playing a role of somebody else to please, to be liked and accepted. In this piece the bush dyes, ink and brushes that made the marks came from the landscape of untouched beauty, ancient and exotic. It’s from different places within Australia. ... To feel everything through all my senses ; the colour, texture, smell, sound , taste is to witness and to be witnessed- this is dreaming . To stitch each piece to the rhythm of my breadth, my heartbeat hence my blood flow is to weave the story ; this is deeply knowing my story. Sensing and knowing is remembering my connection to place. To be able to remember who I am in the family of things is truly belonging and becoming a creature of place.
12.01.2022 Find me where the WILD things are ... Photo credit to Shona Wilson
12.01.2022 F L O W Today on this full moon I am feeling to allow myself to feel deeply. Listen to my body, my skin, my flesh and bones. Early this morning I started my 3 day water fast. I am allowing the waters to run deep within and roam this empty vessel. Whilst the water meander within this vessel, ... I am listening to my breadth and the flow of my blood. As I listen to the flow of my blood I allow my heartbeat to be in resonance with running rivers of this mountain I now call home. See more
09.01.2022 Right now I am dreaming of going to the River, longing to walk along the river. To be a pilgrim of the river, to pay homage to the water and to sing her song of flow. Some of you on the mountain haven’t met me yet, however I am already dreaming of taking you to the river. I am singing to the river, to be in flow with me so I can flow with it. I wish to float away bundles of prayers. As the bundles reach the shore I wish for a mountain that thrive, flourish and overflow. ... I know some of you are in profound pain and I feel you, I wish to take the pain to the water and let it carry your pain to the ocean so you don’t have to be burdened with it. I am devoted to the river just like she is devoted to the sea.
09.01.2022 O N E N E S S When you experience everything as yourself, when you and other has disappeared when only you exist, oneness is your existence. When you are the artist and the painting. When you are the creation and the creator. It’s a wonderful feeling of a natural high. ... A collection of art from the recent visits to the desert country when I was one with nature. These will be available as cards with each of its own narrative.
08.01.2022 W I L D S T I T C H S T O R I E S Today I reacquainted with the soft animal within my body, as Mary Oliver says I let it love what it loves. I tapped in to the wisdom of my senses to weave myself in to the fabric of the mountain. Stitch by stitch, thread by thread I slowly weaved my dreams in to being.
07.01.2022 S U P E R P O W E R I am a contemporary artist and my superpower is my ability to articulate the unspoken in to spoken, to make the invisible visible and most importantly to help people feel emotions that has no capacity for words. Owning my superpower has made me a change maker and a contributor to my people. ... What is your Superpower? Build up of Binna Burra on Fire - donated to the Byron Arts Magazine to be auctioned in aid of Bushfire Recovery Fund in 2019. This piece was completed soon after the fire, it’s my fire story. #letlifeimitateart
03.01.2022 No one created the problems that threaten to overwhelm us from malice. Not the plagues, nor climate change, nor extinctions. They have occurred as side effects of a system whose rapid growth is both encouraged at all costs, and blind to natural limits Reading this article I feel the urgency to attend to the Running Rivers ~ Kuweni
02.01.2022 C R E A T R I X In to country I travelled with a plan. A plan to connect with country, to make a body of work and listen to my self more. It was like scheduling sex, none of it happened it that order. ... Instead I understood my creatrix within, her inner subtle workings, I listened to her in awe. I let my self wonder and wander. I now understand that every part of my life is art, everything I do is art. It’s either tantra ( art of living) , mantra ( spoken word) or yantra ( drawings). This was a deep realization of this creatrix that lives and breathes in this body. I am no longer fearful of her but I know that everything revolves around her, it’s at her command. When she wants to work through me everything else just has to move over, it’s this subservience. It was the holy communion with this primal, primitive, primordial wisdom.
