The Dogon Creation Trilogy
Animation
In 2021, Owunna created The Dogon Creation Trilogy, a series of three digital animations encoded on the Ethereum blockchain. The series fluidly merges images from his Infinite Essence series with spiritually charged ideograms originating in Dogon culture, thereby uniting ancient knowledge and ritual magic with cutting-edge technological developments in the arts.
The Vision of Innekouzou
Innekouzou Dolo was a priestess of Amma, the primordial androgynous Creator in Dogon cosmology. In 1949, she shared with French anthropologists Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen detailed observations of the Sirius star system from which creation emerges.
By fusing the darkness of her inner worlds with the blackness of outer space, she would enter the womb of Amma where the Dogon ideogram for Sirius and this sacred knowledge is revealed to her.
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Amma's Womb
In Dogon cosmology, the universe emerges from the womb of Amma, the Primordial Androgyne to whom Innekouzou was dedicated. Prefigured signs within Amma encode all of the potentiality of the universe, from stellar bodies to the human fetus. The image transforms into the mystical Dogon ideogram for Amma's primordial egg.
Amma Opens Their Eyes
In the final stage of the myth, the universe comes into being when Amma opens Their eyes. This act breaks the egg containing Amma’s womb, and in a spectacular moment, the signs of the world that prefigure all creation emerge. The image transforms itself into the Dogon ideogram for Amma opening Their eyes, thus completing the creation cycle.
With each repetition of the looped animation, these mythical systems are activated and the seeds of creation are spread across the universe.