artist statement: this isn’t a convenience store–this is the miracle of Life!! each creation is a unique channeling of something Time needed to express at a given moment. this reality is strange and strangeness creates beauty. preserving, embracing, and expressing our peculiarities reflects the natural variety and variability of a very very creative reality. my practice contemplates becoming∞being in such a reality. i am fascinated with human evolution through inquisitive & spiritual processes and our ability to deeply know ourselves or 'PUT MEAT ON MY SOUL' as sonia sanchez writes. my work indulges my perpetual awe (terror + delight) for being alive and my gratitude to be an earthling & a part of the history of humanity.bio: divinity incarnated / ancestors in the blood / the flesh glows / erupts silly / fluent presence / laughing melody / the unknown beckons / shivers and rises / magnifying glass / the earth’s grace / everything alive / burstingly full / ecstasy oozes / the speed of delight / untamed spirit / feeling / hearing smelling / tasting / in that sparkling way / scooped out / exquisite sensibility / the living proof / rawness encapsulated / bewitched / dazzled / puzzled / surprised / the power of spirit in action / multiplex awareness / auspicious breeze / wide open and / oddly synchronistic / smell of high tide / spinning out / peculiar commonplace / an earthly gamble / regenerative deaths / late summer blackberries / pregnant with alternate futures / attention to the heart and tongue / saturated with deep impressions / a thousand graces and grandmothers sing / the simplicity of life / reaching to the vasts / infinities that await / those who let go / selfhood free to improvise / more universal / the playground of the world / dynamics move / and mystify / aesthetic devotion / the wisdom of the ages / playful, mischievous / purring over / fantastical / irrepressible / again and again / out afresh by experimentation / the great open ended adventurecontext: sienna kwami is a haitian-ghanian-american diaspora mutt born and raised on the Lands of the Massachusee (Massachusett) & Wôpanâak (Wampanoag) First Nations Peoples (also known as ‘boston, ma, usa’). sienna has a BFA in fiber with a minor in sustainability & social practice from the maryland institute college of art. sienna inherits a long legacy of resisting consensus realities based in elitism, slavocracy, separation, dehumanization, despiritualizing the human experience, and using human choice to play violent power games.

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