In a guided meditation, Les Mamans Douees journeyed to their childhood through their navel, their umbilical gate. They formulated an intention to sort out the feelings from their childhood they want to leave behind and the ones they want to invite into their present live. Les Mamans expressed their intentions while drawing their umbilical gates with henna on shawls they brought from home, in this way charging them as power objects.
The sun is the fire that helps to transform the intention into the lived reality.

One intention expressed that touched me was to leave behind the feeling that you get when you have to do something just because

thanks to Malika Eloualy @tagziwt and Soumaya Simari @soum.spirit for interpretation and thanks to the Gifted Mothers of Dar Bellarj : Fatima Ennaaoui, Najia Kharmouch, Nouzha Koudou, Mina Bouyabrine, Rachida El Idrissi, Zahra El Khiraoui, Khadija Karbah, Amal Bayoud, Khaddouj Batta, Rachida El Guendouf, Amina Taih, Rajat Erguibi, Saida Bourkouli, Latifa Fari, Nejma Batta, Zhour Bouh, Saida Chraibi, Noura Jaibi, Naima Ait el Berrah, Lalla Zahra

this work was developed within the research titled It is Good To Talk With You, Mother
by Alice Vanderwielen-Honinckx in her residency at LE18 Marrakech, open studio January 2024