Bringing the Past to New Horizons Painting

Note: The height of the painting excludes the yarn height. You can hang the painting at varying heights. I would recommend giving the yarn at least 15 inches in length (which makes the total height of the painting: 85 inches) or extend the height of the yarn to 20 inches (88 inches in total) or to 23 inches (92 inches). It depends on how much height you have in the room. I made this painting as part of The Contemporary Indigenous Collection, where I interviewed people I met on my travels around South America to uncover it's true face; its influences and global diversity. I asked them if the native indigenous culture was present in their lives and how. Merwin Poulot African Heritage Grandparents: Africa-Haití-France Born and lives in Cuba “So my heritage is from African slave, do you know something about descendants in Cuba in the years 1500...my yoruba ancestors used the religion to defend against the Spanish fight...was so hard for indigenous culture, african slaves and people in Cuba at this time. And my culture is native from Cuba, I born here...Right now I try to know more about Rastafaray Culture and the roots and ideology's from Jamaican and African slave history. My personality has grown over the influence of an African mixture; my last name is from france and my bloods is cuban native, for this i'm.. (Mixture + Positive Vibration)” The Yoruba have evolved a robust cosmology. In brief, it holds that all human beings possess what is known as "Ayanmo" (destiny, fate) and are expected to eventually become one in spirit with Olodumare (the divine creator and source of all energy). One's ori-inu (spiritual consciousness in the physical realm) must grow in order to consummate union with one's "Iponri" (spiritual self).