19/08/2026
The Flower of Life | In the Garden, after the Garden: She who bloomed and the life that opened through her.
Soul imbued: Ma Yandé Codou Sène 🙏🏿🌿🕯️
A personal, reverent reflection. Continuity from the Being Eve and the Forbidden Fruit ~ link in bio
This design came after my mom crossed over. I was shattered into a million pieces, back in the same feelings I knew during the COVID-19 lockdown, when this body of work first began. The questions that crept in this time were: Who was my mom before she became a mother? Who are the women in my lineage? What was my great-great-grandmother’s name?
I approach the Flower of Life as a daughter’s curiosity into the female lineage, the garden after the garden, the Earthly Eves. I do not come to this pattern first as a scholar of geometry. I come as a daughter, asking a question I cannot answer with a name.
A grandmother can still be touched. A great-grandmother may still live in a story told from the room itself. After that, the face disappears. There are women so far behind us that we cannot answer when we are asked their names — and still you can feel them walking beside you in a way you cannot explain.
This honorary headwrap design begins where the face disappears. It begins at the woman so far behind us that we cannot answer when we are asked her name. This offering is my ask, as a woman, of women: How far back can you name your female lineage? If the answer is not too far, you are not alone. That not-knowing is the place this work kneels.
Front of this design, it has three openings — the Mother, the Daughter and the Holy Spirit. One opening for she who carries. One for she who continues. One for the unseen presence that moves through both.
At the back, the work changes. There is a flat layering. It is ground, not depth. I was careful with this. I did not want the back of the design to suggest a hidden teaching, a further chamber, a claim that the truth was buried underneath Genesis. The Earthly Eves did not live as a secret verse. They lived as ground. They stood on the soil after the garden.
The back of the design remembers that. Flat. Earth. Holding.
This is not the replacement of the Holy Trinity, it is the… continues in link below.
Deep dive link: https://canva.link/the-flower-of-life-after-the-garden-vuyo-oyiya
Credits Music:
• Yandé Codou Sène ~ Keur Mang Codou Version 2 🙏🏿🌿🕯️
Art:
• Vuyo Oyiya
• Ebony Creative Spirit
MaKwande 🙏 KubeChosi 🌿 KubeHele 🕯
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