Offering Calabash #1
- Naomi Gracechild
- Mar 4
- 1 min read
OFFERING CALABASH # 1
Naomi Grace, 2026
10" x 11" x 5.5"mixed media sculpture
Calabash is a sacred plant across the African diaspora. In addition to its many practical uses including as a vessel for eating, drinking and cooking, it is also found in ritual representing the womb, creation, ancestral connection and the containment of divine wisdom.
This altar piece is intended as an offering and/or prayer bowl and incorporates Ghanaian calabash, Kenyan cowrie shells, annatto-infused damar glaze and 24k gold leaf.
This is the first of this series, more to come.
Give thanks for the many Indigenous peoples of the African diaspora, the Amazon, the Caribbean, and what is now known as Central America who have stewarded the knowledge of these calabash and annatto plant teachers. Despite the scourge of colonialism that we still resist today, these teachings have been kept alive for us to receive and use for our healing.
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