ANNA ANU & FOREST FOR TREES COLLECTIVE PRESENT:

ALL POWER TO THE LIVING ANCIENT WOMAN

This installation is a mobile and fixed textile piece composed of ten bold-fabric-sewn bedsheets suspended along a 90-foot clothing line, bearing the phrase: "ALL POWER TO THE LIVING ANCIENT WOMAN, STEWARD OF LAND AND PEACE." Inspired by Diane di Prima’s “All power to joy,” the work honors ancestral feminine wisdom. It draws from the “Grandmother Hypothesis” to advocate for the re-centering of elder women in cultural and ecological leadership. When in motion, the piece is carried by multiple participants who weave it through spaces such as the walkways of Nolan Park and Colonel's Row, activating it as a living protest. In its resting form, it is mounted between free-standing dowels with a pulley system that scrolls the full message, fitting within a 10'x10' footprint.

About the Artist: An interdisciplinary and intersectional ecofeminist artist, Anu’s work explores poetry through the material and closely considers the importance of grandmothers in restorative justice, and a possible futurity. A published author, filmmaker, exhibiting visual artist, and climate education strategist, Anu creates in celebration of elder feminist luminaries, botanics, myth, and semiotics. Coalescing provocative language, pop iconography, and wisdom traditions, their work initiates public discourse on environmental justice. Anu is the Founder and Art Director of Forest For Trees Collective.