ARTIST STATEMENT
The future is ancient
It begins in poetry and ends in poetry
It expands outward from sound to music, movement, movie and mythos
It is a word reuniting with its human harmonic ritual roots to heal the human being
It calls upon West African griots to guide in ancestral history, ingenuity, storytelling, praise song and technology
It sits in the silsila سِلْسِلَة of Tassawuf/Sufism a thread of irfan, a fakir of devotion, the unity of Haqq
It aspires to be centred and generous while resisting capitalism, fascism and ownership of self
It dies before dying. Invisible World as real. Writing as prayer. Orality as sacred. Music, Meditation and Muhasaba at the divine centre