Artist's Statement
My artforms are the tools I use to try and fulfill my mission, which is ultimately to train people in a form of time travel. Whether it's learning the AIM song or a Haudenosonee Prayer or explaining the relevance of my grandfather, Cab, and his sister Blanche Calloway to modern audiences, or how their grandparents founded model civil rights organizations, my goal is to somehow make the past come alive. This can be either to relieve pain, stress, anxiety, loneliness, anger and fear or to prepare yourself for the tests you will find in the future. I do not purport to say that I am a Shaman or make any promises except to say these are the techniques that the Shaman would traditionally use. Results may vary.
For example, in the "Healing Old Wounds" class, you learn how to recite, sing and dance in order to evoke a trance-like state. We then use these ancient tools to speak to your future self to make you stronger and more resilient. Thus, the power of the old ways is in just that, they are old and have survived.
I cannot prophesy or advise you on what will happen in your life, nor can I heal you of anything, the goal here is for you to heal yourself. You know your calamities and symptoms far better than I. Yet, by giving you the tools that have been handed down since the very first Americans, and today's modern recording technology and binaural beats, we are able to give you something that like a shield or helmet to the soldier, in that it gives you a buffer against life's most mighty blows.
That is my statement as an artist. That is how I use art, to heal the mind.
