earth is our mother
Bhakti (Sanskrit: भक्ति) refers to a profound sense of fondness, homage, love, and worship. It denotes the deep devotion and love that a devotee has for a divine being. We are revering our Mother Earth for the divine being that She is through art, song, and environmental gatherings.
Welcome to Earth Bhakti Where We Connect With Reverence to the Being of our Planet through Art and Sound.
Earth Bhakti is an art-based devotional initiative by bhakta artist Anja, based in Northern New Mexico. Through art, song, sound, and shared gatherings such as Sun and Moon Circles, Earth Bhakti offers spaces for encounter with the living Earth — inviting listening, presence, and relationship. It is a meeting place where devotion, creativity, and ecological awareness arise through attention, and care.
About the Land Art
OPEN AIR, SUN-SWEPT EARTH ALTARS
In creating Earth Bhakti land altars and shrines, the artist works with site-specific materials and animistic principles through an art-based, relational approach. These installations are shaped by long-term engagement with land, sound, story, and lived experience. Earth Bhakti land altars are constructed from locally sourced natural materials — clay, mud, straw, rock, wood, and water — and are designed to return to the earth over time. Each project acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land and honors elders past and present, as well as emerging community stewards, through respect, consent, and careful presence.
“All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilling. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.”
OFFERINGS
THE ARTIST
Telluric artist Anja Marais integrates visual art, Bhakti devotion, and land-based practices to create site-specific installations that explore relationship between people, place, and the more-than-human world.