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The Smith was the first divine human ancestor to descend from the heavens to Earth in West African Dogon cosmology. He slipped into the workshop of the Nommo, Heaven’s smiths, and stole a portion of the sun, then fled, mounting a cosmic granary, flying on it to Earth, and carrying this burning piece of divine creation with him to the planet.
Demme Na (The Smith)
The Smith was the first divine human ancestor to descend from the heavens to Earth in Dogon cosmology. He slipped into the workshop of the Nommo, Heaven’s smiths, and stole a portion of the sun. He then fled, mounting a cosmic granary, flying on it to Earth, and carrying this burning piece of divine creation with him. This mass of live embers and white-hot iron is still used by human smiths today.
Photographic Process
In the photographs of Infinite Essence and Cosmologies, Owunna leverages his training as an engineer to explore the nuances of darkness and light. He employs ultraviolet strobes, painted fluorescent backdrops, and carefully hand painted nude bodies of Black models that only glow under ultraviolet light. When he then photographs the models in total darkness, the shutter snaps, and for that fraction of a second, synchronized beams of ultraviolet light illuminate a glowing scene that reanimates tableaus of creation from the archive of African diasporic myth.
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