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⫷Earth Bhakti is a Creative Ecology by Artist Anja Marais Merging Art, Devotion, and Earth Stewardship.⫸
Jai Maa, Jai Suryadeva🙏 Jai Maa, Jai Suryadeva🙏
Jai Maa Jagadambe! Jai Maa Jagadambe!
Jai Maa Jai Maa
Along a forest path in Valdez, framed reliefs are Along a forest path in Valdez, framed reliefs are hanging among the trees, meeting bark, wind, shadow, and passing light. Valdez adobe is carrying the roughness of the ground, Abiquiú mica is catching light, and Indian silk is bringing softness, pattern, and touch into the earthen surfaces. Each work is gathering texture, gesture, ornament, and simple form while staying close to the place around it. Walking along the trail, the body is coming near, moving away, turning, and seeing each work again from another position. The exhibition is unfolding through these encounters, with earth, material, weather, and attention continuing to meet.
Along a forest path in Valdez, framed reliefs are Along a forest path in Valdez, framed reliefs are hanging among the trees, meeting bark, wind, shadow, and passing light. Valdez adobe is carrying the roughness of the ground, Abiquiú mica is catching light, and Indian silk is bringing softness, pattern, and touch into the earthen surfaces. Each work is gathering texture, gesture, ornament, and simple form while staying close to the place around it. Walking along the trail, the body is coming near, moving away, turning, and seeing each work again from another position. The exhibition is unfolding through these encounters, with earth, material, weather, and attention continuing to meet.
Adobe, rock, and lime are resting like a snowflake Adobe, rock, and lime are resting like a snowflake among the pines in the mountain forest. Hands are carrying, pressing, shaping, and smoothing earth into form. Small creatures are moving through openings and sheltering beneath edges. Wind, rain, sun, and living bodies are entering the work. Mountain Shrine is weathering, softening, and slowly returning to earth.
Materiality, Temporal Flux, and Collective Embodim Materiality, Temporal Flux, and Collective Embodiment in Ecological Art Practice Mountain Shrine is emerging through a practice of reciprocity with place. Rather than imposing form upon the landscape, the work is developing through sustained observation, listening, making, and collaboration with the land. Built from earth, clay, sand, lime, natural fibers, and plant-based binders, the installation draws upon traditional earthen-building techniques practiced for generations across New Mexico and Mexico. Mantras and prayers offered by members of the community are enclosed within its foundations, becoming part of the work’s inner structure. The materials are weathering, shifting, and gradually returning to the soil. Land, time, climate, material, prayer, and human intention are continuing to shape the work together. Existing within a liminal space where landscape, ancestors, architecture, ritual, and sculpture meet, Mountain Shrine allows these forms to move through and shape one another. The shrine is forming through relationship with place, inviting consideration of how we are participating within the living world through attention and reciprocity.
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I live and work on the ancestral lands of the Red Willow People of Taos Pueblo, as well as the Jumanos, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Tonkawa, Lipan Apache, and Sana peoples.

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If we surrendered to Earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.- Rainer Maria Rilke