Ifé Franklin’s Indigo Project infuses multiple art practices to honor the lives, histories, cultures, and traditions of African people throughout the diaspora with a concentration on the formerly enslaved of North America. Ifé Franklin’s Indigo Project utilizes many genres of art-making as pathways to connect the past, present, and future. Ifé Franklin’s Indigo Project often invites community to participate in profoundly reflective activities that include and are not limited to songs, movement, creative writing/spoken word, adire fabric dying, performances, instillations, burial site processionals, and miniature slave cabin building workshops. At the center of the project are life-size replicas of slave cabins produced with community involvement.
Ifé Franklin’s Indigo Project is a homecoming, a healing balm and resting place for the souls of the enslaved, that ultimately, centers love, respect, joy and remembering.
THE INDIGO PROJECT
About the Artist
I am gatekeeper. I am conjure/magic. I bring forth what spirit beckons.
As I move with the wind. I bow to trees and earth. I kiss the sweet waters, they in turn drench me with frequencies/coded languages that I interpret/translate and transmit into the world.
I open. I release. I breathe and hold, all the while pushing and pulling, always birthing, constantly giving/sharing life force where there was once none.
I remember the past, present, the future.
My soul connects vibrations and light that show up as colors, form, song, movement, poetry, collage, drawings, photography, film making, and ancestor slave cabins.
I am unbound creation.
I am an unbound artist.
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