Eros Orisha & Grace Iris ((full)) Jun 2026

The river (Oshun) does not apologize for flowing. The wind (Oya) does not ask permission to blow. And Grace Iris suggests that neither should you.

Grace set the basket down and moved to stand beside him. She reached out, her hand hovering over a patch of wet gold. "Then stop trying to force the soul into it. Let it emerge." eros orisha & grace iris

Eros Orisha and Grace Iris are characters created for this piece. Eros, drawing on the Greek god of love and the Orisha traditions of passion, represents the drive to create and possess. Grace Iris, with a name evoking the fluidity of water and the delicate strength of a flower, represents the patience to nurture and refine. Their collaboration symbolizes the artistic process itself—the marriage of wild inspiration and gentle discipline. The river (Oshun) does not apologize for flowing

"It’s finished," he said, his voice awed. Grace set the basket down and moved to stand beside him

To sit with the concept of Eros Orisha & Grace Iris is to be asked a difficult question: Where have you abandoned your body to fit into someone else's heaven?

When Grace Iris invokes the Eros Orisha, she is performing a ritual of reclamation: