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Argentina Delphine Mun It shows us, through its music and art, the indigenous traditions seeking to create a mix of cultures with visuals that weave ties between spirituality and art.
In 2021 he released his first music album Bird. In it we hear and see all this spirituality, art and study of ancestral voices, reflected in 10 original songs.
At the same time, his paintings have been exhibited in different parts of the world. And while he continues to create, he intends to speak on behalf of Mother Earth to extol indigenous wisdom and traditional ways of living. Delfina lives to create, promote and be a voice for Amazonian cultures. Exclusively for M MILLENNIUMDelfina tells us how this approach to the arts was and what she seeks to contribute to the world today.
From what age were you interested in indigenous cultures and becoming a voice for them?
“I was born in a place where indigenous communities are marginalized and peoples have a daily struggle to keep their culture alive and survive.”
“As a child, in this context, I felt isolated within a society that is out of balance with nature. At the age of 12, my mother started working as a translator for the United Nations, and taught me to study documents such as the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. From that moment I began to read and translate many UN documents and was able to understand the process and the global situation of many peoples after colonization.”
“For me, today as a woman it is very important to have this possibility to expand my voice and inspire other women; it is time for the world to recover the balance with the feminine and naturally also the love and respect for our Mother Earth” .
Your studio is isolated from the city. Tell us about your creative process, how does your day evolve from morning to night? When you finish a piece and go out to exhibit it and sell it to the world, how do you feel in it? How do you integrate living in isolation to later coexist in the cosmopolitan society where people from the art world move?
“Today I live nomadic, I have traveled to many countries carrying these messages from Earth and I continue to travel the world. My travels and my sharing is through ceremonies; the strength of our prayers is what opens the doors to further expand these messages through music, art, the medicines of the land, the conscious word”.
“My contact with the people of the city is in the context of our traditional ceremonies. Today, the western world is opening its eyes again to the value and deep treasure that is in the healing of plants and in sacred rituals, and many people comes closer looking for healing and rediscovering”.
“For me it is something very beautiful to be in ceremony in various places in the world. However, it is also a very big challenge to teach in various contexts and cultures what respect and love mean for us, what it is to honor a divine spirit like that of peyote or ayahuasca. People have forgotten how to pray, how to show respect, how to sing and how to dance with the elements.”
“The last two years I have been praying for water in more than 13 countries, in ceremonies that last days. In this way we are remembering the value of life, of caring for and valuing the elements, rivers and oceans, and the importance of reciprocity , offering our prayers to the water and fire that have given us our life. Making offerings to the earth in gratitude for all its generosity and abundance”.
“Then there are times when I stop for about three months, I return to places of power like the Amazon, the desert, places where the earth is pure crystal and waterfalls of clean water, forests, mountains and condors in the sky. In these places I can recharge my energy, continue my deeper studies of the ancestral songs and concentrate to make the paintings. I can also participate in ceremonies with my teachers, my elders, learn, listen to them and develop my vision”.
How has the leap been made between the different artistic disciplines that you practice? Now the music.
“For me, in art and expression everything is integrated, many times a song is born and from the hand comes a vision for a painting. Melodies are intertwined with colors, dances and poems.”
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