“They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we pay for the woundings of our ancestors.”
―Nayomi Munaweera
How have you paid for the woundings of your ancestors?
Thousands of years ago our distant ancestors created vivid, beautiful paintings of the world they lived in—pictures which still carry an incredible vibrancy to this day. We humans are art-making creatures.
What artwork feels like it connects your soul to a time gone by?
“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The “I” is chained to ancestry by many factors…. This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.”
―Erwin Schrödinger
Who are intellectual ancestors who have shaped you with their ideas?
Apollo was once the most powerful god of the most powerful nation in the world. Now his temple is a ruin for tourists to wander through. Power is never as permanent as we think.
How have you seen structures of power shift in your lifetime?
In the course of lives and generations some things are lost, some things are gained, some are deliberately let go and some things just kind of fall by the wayside, abandoned without a great deal of thought as to what might be missed.
What tradition, knowledge or possession from your family history to you wish you still had access to?
