“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” — Arundhati Roy
To dream is to affirm that another world is on her way. It is a refusal of the story that this is the only world possible. Dreaming reminds us that beneath the noise of empire and extraction, life is still organizing itself toward wholeness— and we are active participants in courting and creating the life-affirming futures we want to be a part of. Fascism demands conformity and the acceptance of extraction as inevitable. Dreaming is ungovernable. It is spontaneous, erotic, individual and collective at once. When we imagine justice, when we envision a world centered on life instead of profit, we are defying every system built on control.
The earth herself is dreaming through us.
We are not the masters of this dream. We are its vessels.
Dreaming is political. To soften, to listen, to feel, in a world that asks us to rush, produce, and override, is a form of defiance.
And it is also participation. Participation with life.
With what is already moving. Already forming. Already asking to be met.
Set within Friday Gallery’s Fever Dream exhibition, Damiana designed an intimate, sensory salon for a group of of 20 women who are creating paradigms of kinship and reciprocity with the human and more-than-human world. Together, we explored how practicing collective visioning, rooted in animist principles, is how we create futures worth inhabiting.
Damiana is both a flower and an organization. The flower, a medicinal plant native to Mexico, holds the dream of sensuality, creative remembrance, and embodied presence. The organization is dedicated to building care infrastructure for women leading ecological regeneration. We connect, nourish and resource leaders across cultures, generations and disciplines, so they can sustain transformative action.
This salon was a soft launch of Damiana as an organization. Presented through the lens of how damiana, the flower, is dreaming through us. How we dream not only as individuals, but as a field. As a collective that listens for what is already emerging, and supports one another in bringing these visions into form.
Download our damiana dream practice here.
A huge thank you to everyone that made this possible. It takes a village.
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