How Red Sap Glows

The Fire Tended Goddess speaks from the flame in her belly ~•asking

}}~• have you noticed the heat inside you today? ~•{{

You wait, sit with yourself, and notice your flame is everpresent. Its subtleties shift and are felt.

You exhale, and your heat follows your breath out your mouth. There’s a flame on your tongue now. You speak from it, like the diety, and say•••

~}}• Fire untended brings destruction, pollution, violence. This is apparent in consumerist communities... Brew a fire to cleanse this pain from y{our} belly and find kind warmth again. This effort heals generations. Our flames should only use as much they need •{{~

Fires’ golden black sap ignites from our cells

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We live from it

This Ancestral Fire Altar was commissioned by Ashara Ekundayo for their project: Black Women in Joy and Mourning