Yetu has a more intact long-term memory and her brain chemistry is more flexible than the others.
So she was chosen as a child to become the wajinru’s Historian, to hold the entire History of her people – every memory, sensation and emotion from all the wajinru from the past 400 years or more...
The merfolk of African descent in "The Deep" somehow developed the ability to breathe underwater and were rescued and cared for my whales also considered to be ancestors and elders. They designate one person to bear all the memories and trauma for the entire society, but it proves to be too much.
Immersive installation inspired by the Drexciya mythology by NYC-based artist Firelei Báez.
It includes lush foliage and paintings of the exiled Haitian Queen Marie-Louise Coidavid (1778-1851) and her daughters.
A Drexcyen chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways), 2019
Firelei Báez
