MOON RICHARDS

Untitled

2022

We have created a series of waist beads that represent the time, patience, compassion and dedication we have to ourself, and our healing. These beads symbolize the physical, spiritual and mental wellbeing that we need to balance in order to properly and fully heal. We blessed the beads with our ancestors in order to carry out specific tasks and heal certain ailments.

For example, the red strand is to strengthen our roots. It represents our connections, relationships and pain related to our hips, and lower back. In order to properly allow our physical body to heal we must connect back to ourself, our ancestors, and strengthen and realign our relationships with others. One cannot be healed without the other. These beads reflect, remind and aid the wearer spiritually so we can be strong enough to tackle the interpersonal and physical symptoms that are the root cause.

This piece is predominantly composed of  ethically sourced crystals, seed beads and organic cotton that was hand sealed.

ARTIST | Moon Richards

Moon is a multidisciplinary artist that focuses on traditional craftwork. Moon uses we/ours/us pronouns to highlight the connection between us and our ancestors. It's a way to bring them with us, express our intimate connection, express collective consciousness and detail a collective self.

ARTIST MENTOR | Danica “Dizzy” Ricamara

Instagram: @dizzydirtydinero

Danica “Dizzy” Ricamara is an award winning director, actress and community strategist. Since then she has rooted her creative work to amplify missing voices, through her own creative agency “Friends from the Endz” which creates opportunities for BIPOC content creators to work together. Through this experience she has shifted her work to facilitating interactive spaces/workshops (through POV, The Community Healing Project, NIA Centre, Reel Film Festival) when she mentored and developed emerging content creators to navigate their lived experiences as a way to inspire their craft.

Email: dizzydineroo@gmail.com
Portfolio platform(s) - @friends.fte / Friends From the Endz Content

“Inspired by our lived experiences which indeed has become our greatest mentor”