

artist statement: this isn’t a convenience store–this is the miracle of Life!! each creation is a unique channeling of something Time needed to express at a given moment. this reality is strange and strangeness creates beauty. preserving, embracing, and expressing our peculiarities reflects the natural variety and variability of a very very creative reality. my practice contemplates becoming∞being in such a reality. i am fascinated with human evolution through inquisitive & spiritual processes and our ability to deeply know ourselves or 'PUT MEAT ON MY SOUL' as sonia sanchez writes. my work indulges my perpetual awe (terror + delight) for being alive and my gratitude to be an earthling & a part of the history of humanity.bio: divinity incarnated / ancestors in the blood / the flesh glows / erupts silly / laughing melody / fluent presence / the unknown beckons / shivers and rises / the earth’s grace / magnifying glass / everything alive / burstingly full / the speed of delight / ecstasy oozes / untamed spirit / feeling hearing smelling tasting / in that sparkling way / scooped out / exquisite sensibility / the living proof / rawness encapsulated / bewitched / dazzled / puzzled / surprised / multiplex awareness / auspicious breeze / the power of spirit in action / peculiar commonplace / wide open and oddly synchronistic / smell of high tide / spinning out / an earthly gamble / regenerative deaths / late summer blackberries / pregnant with alternate futures / the great open ended adventure / attention brought to the heart and tongue / saturated with deep impressions / a thousand graces and grandmothers sing / the simplicity of life / reaching to the vasts / infinities that await / those who let go / selfhood free to improvise / more universal / the playground of the world / dynamics move and mystify / aesthetic devotion / the wisdom of the ages / playful, mischievous / purring over / fantastical / irrepressible / again and again / out afresh by experimentationcontext: sienna kwami is a haitian-ghanian-american diaspora mutt born and raised on the Lands of the Massachusee (Massachusett) & Wôpanâak (Wampanoag) First Nations Peoples (also known as ‘boston, ma, usa’). sienna has a BFA in fiber with a minor in sustainability & social practice from the maryland institute college of art. sienna is a part of a long legacy of resisting cultures of elitism, supremacy, separation, subjugation, despiritualizing the human experience, and using human choice to play violent power games.

𓍯𓂃 currently & recently
explore my pirate ship, bon bon spirale
100 moods in 1 minute (2025)
read hierophant hour volume one (2024)
read my spiritual coming of age newsletter, ankò e ankò
get a copy of my poetry book, if i were an omen (pub. 2024)
listen to universe hold me tight and hear my poetry for sascha rose’s song (2024)
read my essay 'coming of age as a mermaid: death, grief, zombies, why i became a pirate, & seeing the ocean in everything', created as a part of the mermaid happening hosted by simone johnson april – july 2023
artist talk: Mobius Artists: Spiderweb Presents Sienna Kwami (2022)
reintegration meditation (2022)
illustrations for anukriti’s book of being (2022)
curator for mithsuca berry’s the sun knows know impostor (2021) at Boston Center for the Arts
ideator of & curator for mache-trip-nou (2021) at Waller Gallery
oracle flag (generations of love) [we must act absolutely] (2021)
want to collaborate? email me