Jana Astanov and Enrique Luna - SHAKTI
Artist: Jana Astanov and Enrique Luna
Title: SHAKTI
Divine Flow is an AI collaboration between Jana Astanov and Enrique Luna aka TombStonesAndUFOs, dreaming the poetry of AI keywords based on her ancient Mudra mantra video and activating the ancient wisdom of the timeless connection between the human gesture and the divine reality. In his words: “This animation is a visual representation of female power. Goddesses control the elements, like building blocks of creation. Feminine energy is a beautiful and powerful force that is all around us."
Sanskrit of the mudras mantra in the video is as follows:
YATO HASTA THATHO DRISHTI
YATO DRISHITI TATO MANAA
YATO MANAA TATO BHAVA
YATO BHAVA TATO RASA
English translation:
Where the hand goes, the eyes follow.
Where the eyes go, the mind/heart follows.
Where the mind/heart (awareness) is, expression is created.
Once expression is created, emotion (essence) arises.
Enrique Luna is a multimedia artist and engineer residing in Brooklyn. Currently experimenting with AI, his animation focuses on horror, surrealism and psychedelia and explores themes such as death, enlightenment, shamanism, femininity and symbols.
Jana Astanov is an artist, a poetess, and an independent curator, born in Mazury Lake District of Poland and currently living in the Shawangunk Mountains, in upstate New York. She is a founder of CREATRIX Magazine: www.creatrixmag.com, portal for creative expression focused on art, activism and spiritual practice. Her work includes performance art, installation, photography, and sound art. Together with her partner Niko van Egten she co-created an electronic music group ASTRALOOP featuring her poetry in dark electronic arrangements. She is also the author of five collections of poetry: Antidivine, Grimoire, Sublunar, The Pillow Book of Burg, and Birds of Equinox. Her latest collection of poetry Erogenous Universe Dreams Back is coming out in the Fall 23. She has performed at Tate Modern, Smack Mellon Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, Venice Biennale, Documenta 2017, and many other galleries, festivals and independent venues worldwide.