Remembering Ceremony---> Art as Remembering?

Decolonizing imperatives---> Remembering Ceremony & Returning to Homelands, as liberation from the myths of colonialism, these are imperative to personal decolonization of the mind and life. I am working on creating zones of refuge, where one can practice these indigenous ways of being (human), away from the forceful, dominant walls of colonization. I am practicing and working with members of my family, tribe and inter-tribal indigenous spiritual community at remembering and creating ceremony. I have been apart of this struggle and constant battle to remember since I was born. Tying this into my art conceptually has been difficult (mainly to describe and discuss with cohorts and professors), but I believe that my art practice has become a syndicate and stand in for the loss of regular ceremony (ceremony meaning ways to remember what it is to be human, humans connected to land, relatives, cycles, elements, through prayer, songs, sweatlodge, dances). Approaching these abstract ways of deconstructing and decolonizing my thinking and making art, the practice is in a way remembering the essence of the ceremony and what that represents in indigenous people hood's identity. I am still working on how to discuss this aspect, I know it is apart of my process and is important to continue delving into describing, regardless of how emotional, personal and difficult it can be.