So I was invited to share my philosophy and my approach to my art practice by Wren of the Magic Moments with Music podcast. I really had such a great time pondering Omítórera my song offering to Osun. I discuss the importance of community, ancestral veneration, seasons and flow.
I have been watching YouTube more now that I have the time and I'm most drawn to long form content I can primarily listen to. So here's what I've enjoyed lately:
The Future of Natural Hair by Rukiat (43:21)
I loved this video essay because I love history and we were really taken on a historical journey of hair, current trends, valid critiques and then a really well researched guess of the future. I think I have futuristic hair, it's flamboyant af.
THE VICTIMS OF THE KNIFE - Audio Documentary by Rachel Melita (30:01)
I never knew audio documentaries were a thing until Rachel shared her documentary on FGM. This documentary was incredible. Having the women harmed by FGM be the first voices we heard is so important and so worthwhile. Their experiences, their feelings and their voice centred was so impactful. I was a bit hesitant to listen because I hate to hear about people suffering but though the practice and the stories were really unjust and unfortunate, there was a lot of care and gentleness in this documentary.
I'm so happy Rachel Melita used her creativity to widen my perspective and highlight the experiences and perspectives of African women. The organisation that helps former cutters retrain in other skills totally inspired me because it's so easy to demonize and discard people that have been practicing harm but they took a practical and effective method to address a really important element. Because if the cutters are making uniforms they can't cut or teach others to cut and continue the practice. Amazing work, important work, amazing documentary.
Of Flesh & Fear: the Pyramid of Predators - by Tee Noire (02:34:44)
Tee Noire speaks to patriarchy, predators and social hierachy. She takes a deep dive into the things we don't want to speak about and it's extremely important.
Shame is keeping you from the care you deserve | Divination For Liberation Podcast - by Dayna Lynn Nuckolls aka People's Oracle (55:43)
The People's Oracle breaksdown the planets, their movements and how they can impact us collectively and as individuals. There's plenty of sidereal Cancer in the sky and we need to pay attention to our bodies.
BONUS:
Knowledge Beyond Certainty - The Solomon Atah Podcast featuring Dr. Olusegun Morakinyo (01:29:11)
Dr. Morakinyo explains and breaks down the importance of African technology, knowledge production and the significance of Yoruba orisha Eshu in philosophy.
I'm breaking the mental chains
Cutting the psychic cords
Carefully stripping back
Playfully removing
Through trial and error
Investigation, introspection and interrogation
What contributes to the quality of my life
And what undermines my happiness and health
What can I cut down
How do I tear way the conditioning
Slice down conformity, cruelty and carelessness
Leave the bare bones of employability and the spectacle of sanity
Simply to survive this cruel and capitalist world
Abandon all hope of thriving in this world
Destroy my ambitions of success in this world
And save the finite time and energy I have towards community and care
Towards creativity and rest
At times slowness, at times sabotage
Soon escape, return to burn.
Why can't we speak on the pain?
Only on the gains.
Only on consumerism, followers and fame
Why is our truth a stain?
When did we become the ones to blame?
We’re supposed to be grateful
"Shut up, smile and don’t you dare turn hateful"
Can’t even complain
Pissing on us and telling us its rain
They tell us it's our fault
Again and again
All while they have gained
And gained and gained
They silence our pain
And we feel shame
We are not the ones to blame
We did not create the chains
For gold, grains and sugarcane
They hoard the wealth obtained
Through cheap labour its sustained
I despise the wealth that's bloodstained
So here's my poem on just sliver of my pain.
May 2026 reflection: There's an oil famine, can we work fully remote yet? Also fuck plantation owners. I love this song, proud of this music video.
Commuter's Commitment (Mundane Mondays) Music Video - (2024)
The song is a lo-fi jazz instrumental inspired by the infamous London commute the anti-binary artist Love, Builder of Worlds grew up deeply entrenched in; acutely aware of its adornments of delays, overcrowded platforms, stuffy and sometimes sweltering heat, and of course its ear piercing symphony of screeches. Commuter’s Commitment instead offers itself as a reprieve from the cacophony of chaos that is the commute, and serves the listener as a friendly accompaniment of comfort on those seemingly endless mundane Mondays and the days that follow.
Lyrics: Wake up? Are you awake? The shareholders need their money. Have you woken up yet? Hello? --- Video description : An image of Commuter's Commitment (Mundane Monday) art work (description below). Then there are a series of dark cityscape shots depicting commuters going to work in Dublin city center. Theres city traffic, buses, cars, cyclists, offices, bridges and luas shown at various times of the day. Towards the end of the video the cityscape shots are reversed. The final shot is commuters waiting at a bus stop in the evening. Love, Builder of Worlds logo is shown, then the song credits and music video credits. Audio is a jazzy lo-fi instrumental track with city sounds and towards the end theres Black British person asking questions.
Commuter's Commitment (Mundane Mondays) artwork description: An African person on the floor under a desk appearing exhausted and overwhelmed. He is wearing traditional African material, surrounded by office items: a laptop covering his face, theres wires to the right of him, a laptop bag to the left of him and on the office table theres an air purifier necklace, headphones, an ergonomic mouse, a regular mouse, a wireless keyboard, papers, a book and a wireless HDMI transmitter. The image is overall is a bluey hue.
Music Credits: Writers: Love, Builder of Worlds oneofthemany
Executive Producers: Love, Builder of Worlds oneofthemany Katlego
Producer: Love, Builder of Worlds oneofthemany
Performance: Love, Builder of Worlds
Guitar: Manae Solara Vaughn Hammond
Art Work: Lea
Mixing Engineer: Manae Solara Vaughn Hammond
Mastering Engineer: Eoghan Tyrell
Special Thanks to Olólùfẹ́ Collective
Music Video Credits:
Directed by Love, Builder of Worlds
For more music, essays and poems be sure to check the pinned blog post for my latest artwork
TW: mass murder, ableism, eugenics, human sacrifice
Practicing COVID safety to me is identifying the danger of COVID, trying to avoid getting it, trying to raise awareness and practically supporting others who are picking up where authoritarian nation states and their corporate rulers have failed. They have gone far beyond failure and transitioned into ritualistic mass maiming and killing of people, particularly disabled people, vulnerable people, children, asylum seekers and refugees, elderly people, Africans and the African diaspora, queer people particularly trans people, low paid essential workers like retail and hospitality workers, and medical professionals.
COVID denialism is a money ritual and horrific human sacrifice which has now extended to pets and wild animals. The state has misled their population for money. Capitalism is an evil spirit and politicians alongside their corporate overlords and shareholders, offer up the health of the asset-less (well even those with assets at this point) in exchange for money. This is a long tried and tested money ritual that started with slavery.
My sibling and I watched the movie Subuola, as I watched, the link between the COVID pandemic and human sacrifice became clear to me. I felt disgusted, duped and defrauded by the grand scale of the lies and harm that were being pushed. I felt angry every time I would see or hear that COVID was just a cold or that a person could have a mild version of a severe respiratory virus. The betrayal felt similar to losing my religion.
Human sacrifice is Boris Johnson telling the British public some of their elderly relatives will die. It's Rishi Sunak causing an "Eat Out to Help Out" infection surge which was no doubt a state sponsored human sacrifice to the hospitality industry. (Note Eat Out to Help Out was a Conservative government scheme operating from 3 Aug to 31 Aug 2020, costing £500 million encouraging people to eat in restaurants and ultimately catch COVID-19.) Ireland had a similar scheme called "Stay and Spend".
Some people have experienced cognitive decline, some their eyesight, some their abilities to climb stairs without feeling out of breath. To say they've lost those things hides the truth of the matter. People with more power and assets misled and stole those things from them to increase the amount of capital they are hoarding. The injustice and real life consequences has turned me into a recluse.
When there have been economic downturns in the past and in the earlier stages of the pandemic there were no suggestions from the capital/resource hoarding class to seize offshore accounts and use the estimated trillions to help the average person. Instead, corporations cemented our pandemic trauma with a cost of living crisis, which is just a corporate greed crisis.
While I understand that everyone has various factors that can influence the level of COVID precautions they can employ in their lives I think it is important that we do not see things as a binary, whether we are taking precautions or not. We can all implement some form of COVID safety in our lives.
Written by Love, Builder of Worlds
Edited by Maro Okoro
Image description: Screenshot showing the meta data for this blog post, modified Thursday 12 December 2024
TW: child labour, human trafficking and slavery
First published on twitter Jun 13, 2019
Image reads: Deb @zebzalebz Jun 13, 2019
Also fashion is a scam. And keeping up with new fashion and constantly buying new clothes and getting throwing away old clothes does nothing for the environment. Theres enough clothes on this planet that if we never manufactured a single item again we'd still have a huge surplus.
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Feb 2026 reflection: now I know how much the fashion industry pollutes I hate it even more. Plus the fashion industry faciliate and benefits directly from child labour, human trafficking and slavery.