art ~ spirit ~ transformation
e*lix*ir

e*lix*ir   #14
Ridvan 2022
Art
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Editorial

• Our Green Island

Artist Profile

• Poems by Tami Haaland
• An Interview with Tami Haaland

The Writing Life

• Giving Voice to the Dispossessed by Anton Floyd

Poetry

Poems from the Global Poetry Reading Honoring ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
• Imelda Maguire
• Anthony A. Lee
• Harriet Fishman
• Valerie Senyk
• James Andrews

Essays

• The Literary Life of Rosey Pool by Richard Hollinger

Personal Reflections on Bahá’í Texts

• Our Verdant Isle by Sandra Lynn Hutchison
• The Circle of Existence by Susan Mottahedeh

Art

Our Green Island
• Pam Jackson
• Nikki Manitowabi

Comic

• Ruhi & Riaz by Eira

Voices of Iran

• The Holiest Part of the Desert by Nava
• A New Qiblih by Nahal Lofti

Books

• Anton Floyd’s Falling Into Place and Depositions by Jim Burke
• The Passing of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá


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Our Green Island

by NIKKI MANITOWABI

Water Messengers

The Thorn

Twin Spirits

Ceremony

Illustration for a Book

Mandamin Harvest

The Teaching

Sisters
 


Nikki Manitowabi
Bio:   Nikki Manitowabi is an indigenous artist from Wikwemikong located on Mnidoo Mnising (Manitoulin Island, Canada). She is of Ojibway, Odawa, and Pottowatomi descent. She works mostly with acrylic on canvas and water color on paper. Recently, she has also been experimenting with oils. Her work explores the themes of relationships, family, and teachings as inspired by the people in her home community of Wikwemikong and in surrounding communities.