Muninn (Raven God)

This image is comprised of pulped slavery documents, financial records, Quantock earth, Zinc Etching print of a woman (representing marriage maids from the 18th Century) and a willow ash handmade printing ink of a Raven wearing a plaque mask. The handmade tablet of pulped documents and images sit on a bed of willow ash, representing the destruction of a precious tree used by the indigineous North Americans who used the willow bark as a medicine, now lain waste by the Europeans who colonised North America, bringing the homeless, destitute, orphaned children and prostitutes of London and other UK cities to work the fields to grow and tend the cash crop tobacco as slaves and indentured servants, most dying within one to three years of their arrival. Muninn represents memory and is one of the two Ravens who advised the god Odin. The Raven also represents in North American culture the carrier of dead souls; the harbringer of death; the go-between of live and death and the deliverer of justice to lost sols of murdered humans.