Healing & Harming Effects of Water

 Allyrica Williams

ENGL 2016-44378

Ms. Harris 

Healing & Harming Effects of Water

This visual serves to represent the harmful effects and the healing effects of water. Throughout the read of Homegoing, water represents its harming nature that causes pain and suffering to families, specifically when Esi is sent to the Americas during the slave trade. This became a generational curse throughout the reading when especially when Marcus is afraid to swim, and the firewoman in Akua’s dream uses water to distract her and she begins the fire. However, its healing nature is also used to bring families together, specifically when Marjorie & Marcus meet to swim, and the family is reconnected. This visual shows a beach with figures representing rejoicing and praying. This serves to show the healing effects of water and how it can be peaceful and used to bring peace. Some use water to reach a new level of spirituality within themselves or to the God, they pray to. The chain was an inspiration from reading Arks of Return about Charles Gaines’ commissioned installation Moving Chains. With this, I used a chain across the beach, and each face represents a way water has harmed. The first is a ship leaving an island, showing the uprooting families were forced to partake in during the slave trade. The second is someone drowning in water to show the sacrifices of lives that were made by slaves that preferred death over enslavement. The final is an image of slaves being thrown overboard to show the sacrifices of black lives made by white people with complete disregard for them. The chain also represents the ongoing battle of racism and the effects of slavery because, to this day, we are still held to certain stereotypes to keep us from succeeding. 

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