Oh Yea The Door !

I have a small little slip of paper from an Interplay retreat last March , in nice script it says, " Honor your Door ways." This sits next to my Bhudda holding the stone, " desire" in his palms.
I am reading a Book entitled, " Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams" Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and The State in Africa , written by Kenyan Writer, Ngugi wa Thiong'O .

" In history the appearance of art in human life precedes the emergence of the state. There were body decorations, rock drawings, songs and dances long before even the rudimentary forms of state. The state as we know it has not always existed."

I had found it fasinating that God and Art were One Integrated Concept and that there was no distinction between the two.

The Gikuyu word for the Artist is : Mumbi
meaning the one who moulds, the creator

Mumbi wa Iguru na thi: the creator of heaven and earth and the first Artist.

Maker of pots
Maker of images

In the same language it also covers the 3 senses of Mumbi:
nature, nurture and the human imagination.

Of the Agikuyu people of Kenya , the voice of the singer of good words was really the voice of " God".

He writes, " Absolute Art is for the celebration of absolute motion, which is life" and before this he writes, Art is always reminding the present of the obvious: even you shall pass this way again. A colonial state and a neo-colonial state, which are variants of an absolutist state... will enevitable come into conflict with any words and images that embody change. The Absolute state is for the absolute cessation of motion, which is death."

So here I write about " The Voice" and its meaning as one of the many facets . Soul Maker- Body Maker- Creator- Mumbi- Pot Maker- Maker of the Heart Beat, Planet Drum Maker and The One who makes my Flesh Dance.

Within the Collective Framework of Colonization is the Colonization of the Body and the Mind.

It's the deconstruction of the " Beautiful One within Ones Self" is to loose ones Voice and language that fills the air . It is an open space. Not Theatre, Not a Gallery, Not a House, and not a room.

It is an open Space- an open Performance Space where within its open borders I have been able to experiment , create and construct a new voice.