Slave Dungeon Transformation Project
SSAAP will hire a few local artisans to paint some walls of various slave dungeons (where slaves were kept after being purchased and before putting them on the boats) as well as an abandoned slave ship here at our port. Artisans are painting portraits of Nonviolence, Love-based leaders like MLK, Gandhi, Mandela, HH Dalai Lama XXVI, etc. as well pastels, Nature scenes, colour-friendly on the walls of these places that people have kept all these years but aren't doing anything with. SSAAP's original idea was to grow plants inside too and make them meditation zones. This Slave Dungeon work is a future project (2028-onward). We want to bring Light back into places that have stagnant and dark, sad, lonely, frightened energy. This is the work of true art: to shed Light, even in the deepest darkness.
The only way to make permanent change in anything is by going straight to its energy source and changing the energetic properties of it that way.
This should be a scientific process, as we once learned in Chemistry class; changing the chemical and energetic properties of an element changes the element itself. By reorganizing the energetic structure of something, we have changed its dynamic, energetic properties. And then, like all things scientific, something shifts and that scientific process becomes spirit process: a subtle bending of energy.
The Slave Dungeon in Port Loko town is located along the Kamaranka River just a few meters before the river meets the Atlantic. People used to wait in the dungeon, up to 125 people at a time, crammed into the small space. Many people died here, starved here, lost their children here, and suffered here.
SSAAP has met with the Paramount Chief and has obtained permission to work on a project to bring a new life and energy to the building. This project will include painting by local artists, adding benches for meditation, all to help bring healing to the community.
