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Italistics Collective, Frenchmen, New Orleans, LA (2026)

12/11/2025

10/23/2025

‘The Bulbancha’n Medicinal Ball’

12x12 (mixed media on black stock)
‘25
•A melanated meditation,a basking,a dance of medicinal value in communion with the rays of HVSHI(chahta=SUN).
In this peace,it’s also a remembrance of an ancestral call and suggestion to embrace,honor, and protect our indigenous,coastal,and tribal communities and practices.In recognition of our well being and the livity of this turtle island (earth)that functions and depends on this balance.
•It’s also an honoring of the powerful life force that is the Misi-Ziibi River(OJIBWE).
Its nutrient rich soils and waters that have nourished many beings and ancestors of our home.
•Nanh Bvlbancha reclaims a a healthy ancient relationship with Spirit and these sacred lands.
•The numbers are divine yantras,heirograms,glpyhs,…signs that are of divine communication;a means to guide and ascend us forward when our (3rd)environments,the distractions,the ill conditionings and projections that can cloud our connection with our divine selves and purpose.
They serve as nurturing wisdom ,guidance,and insight when clarity isn’t so clear ,but is still innately felt in the heart and at the core ;creating a coherence of such.
•The 4 cowrie shells speaks to OBI divination and are revered as messages or messengers of the divine;used also as tools to communicate with ancestors and benevolent entities,spirits to gain wisdom ,clarity,insight,and or guidance;ultamately overstanding.They are also seen as signs or symbols of prosperity,fertility,and protection.The open and or closed shells form a basis for the diviner’s interpretation and an answer to a question.