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Even in their darkest times, our ancestors held fast to beauty as the divine spark no darkness can put out. These mesmerizing collages are portals into that eternal light — the kind that sustains us and still shows the way.
Much like the land Rashani cares for, this book is alive, so generously alive. Gazing into this book, each page is gazing back, offering a question, initiating a stirring. Art, Poetry, and Presence. Deepen, listen, sing it out loud: How, while inevitably embedded in oppressive systems, while bearing witness to the truth of sorrow, while creating possibility for change, will we be broken-open-hearted lovers to the world and ourselves? Rashani has brilliantly created a book that is infused with the immense power of collectivity. Counterforce, like every being on this earth, is not created in isolation. May this book be a companion in our grief, a call to beauty in our inquiries against ignorance, and an enduring ember in our joyful resistance!
–Elsa Ferguson, sacred rebel and earth protector
Rashani V Réa is a rare weaver of worlds. In Art, Poetry and Presence, she delicately threads image, word, and silence into a luminous tapestry of presence. Nothing here is separate: beauty leans into grief, grief opens into grace, and all of it breathes as a continuous whole. Each page arrives like a quiet threshold, a doorway into a place where something in us softens, listens, and remembers its own quiet depth. What emerges is a softening into what has always been here, waiting to be touched with love.
–Hela Dammak, poet
Forty eight exquisite collages! Some dating back more than 25 years and others created more recently...
Even in their darkest times, our ancestors held fast to beauty as the divine spark no darkness can put out. These mesmerizing collages are portals into that eternal light — the kind that sustains us and still shows the way.
Much like the land Rashani cares for, this book is alive, so generously alive. Gazing into this book, each page is gazing back, offering a question, initiating a stirring. Art, Poetry, and Presence. Deepen, listen, sing it out loud: How, while inevitably embedded in oppressive systems, while bearing witness to the truth of sorrow, while creating possibility for change, will we be broken-open-hearted lovers to the world and ourselves? Rashani has brilliantly created a book that is infused with the immense power of collectivity. Counterforce, like every being on this earth, is not created in isolation. May this book be a companion in our grief, a call to beauty in our inquiries against ignorance, and an enduring ember in our joyful resistance!
–Elsa Ferguson, sacred rebel and earth protector
Rashani V Réa is a rare weaver of worlds. In Art, Poetry and Presence, she delicately threads image, word, and silence into a luminous tapestry of presence. Nothing here is separate: beauty leans into grief, grief opens into grace, and all of it breathes as a continuous whole. Each page arrives like a quiet threshold, a doorway into a place where something in us softens, listens, and remembers its own quiet depth. What emerges is a softening into what has always been here, waiting to be touched with love.
–Hela Dammak, poet
Forty eight exquisite collages! Some dating back more than 25 years and others created more recently...