Tree of Oblivion
Memory Lane on Slave Route of Ouidah - Meanwhile… Universal Love is waiting, First Female Revolution in Iran which could be exponential for Afghanistan too and be able to touch equality for half humanity, Democraties are under attacked everywhere - with a bleeding Ukraine as a shield facing a sociopath and autocraties. While Armenians, Kurds suffers too and Uighurs still enslaved… First Nations will be the extinct ones, when species will die out. On a bruised, polluted, suffocated planet.
Lilliput here thinking about Ouidah, a denuded village near the sea in Benin, Africa. …’Place Chacha’, ‘the Door of No Return’… Where the Memory of the past of slavery is pointed by his consciousness, where tears of suffering are unchanged still cutting rocks, diamonds of sadness.
After their captures, the sale on the Auction Square, there was atransit around this centuries-old tree called 'Tree of Oblivion' where was practiced a abomination ritual’s passage triggering an erasure force of « all clues of their belonging » as suppression of their soul, then confinement and the branding with red iron, would make them losing all reference, waiting for their deportation in huts in total darkness which would completely alter their dimension of existence. Their fate no longer belonged to them on the sales stalls as the magic of ritualized beliefs then forced them to live and integrate the perversity of induced, dissociative experiences of depersonalization. They were simply qualified as "goods" by others human beings.
Millions of people were taken to join the ships of the slave trade mutualized by European colonisation, here at "Door of No Return" in the 18th Century.
With "BTCHL" Where that guilty of deep-rooted feelings of helplessness showing by that hiding Lilliput one eye hero - through that reality of violence remains unbearable. Living on hearth, among us at that possibilities to be united and to keep that doing in peace rather than stepping for self destruction is the only way to live. Then it's about saving democracy, human fucking rights. It's about just saving for the good, for the people away from lies or revisionists, tyrannic, genocidaires, rapists... for free speechs, freedom for all.
It’s about love whom you decide to as being what you really are inside.
This Totem portraits variation came from a 2004 draft results here a cross Storie with Bicéphale and Lilliput "à la manière de Décalcomanie" from my childhood.
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