‘ I Do What Makes Me Happy’ Painting

Original painting by Janina Nana Yaa Asiedu

Acrylic and water colour on Canvas

40 cm x 49.5 cm

‘I Do What Makes Me Happy.’ This textured and vibrant art piece is an affirmation for embracing divine happiness. A reminder and encouragement to connect with what activates this happiness through our actions, habits and experiences. It can be easy to place our happiness in the hands of others, society, material things or circumstances that do not seem to go in our favour. This painting offers an awakening to our self sovereignty within the simple reclamation of our happiness every single day.

To be used for ritualist divination (connecting to the Divine) it can placed next to or opposite a mirror (reflecting through).

Janina Nana Yaa Asiedu (they/them) is a Queer Ghanaian artist, Ritualist and Ancestral practitioner. Born in Aotearoa NZ and founder of House of Afi x Nyame Dua, they offer visual art, herbal skin-care, spiritual adornments and divination that guide the collective through the waters of Ancestral intimacy & healing.

Janina’s artwork embraces the use of vibrant tones and texture to call the unseen to be seen. Honouring African Divinities, Adinkra symbols and mystical forces of Nature. Their heart is most fulfilled when uplifting LGBTQ+, African, Black and Brown community. Deeply inspired by Indigenous patterns, line work and naturally informed by their upbringing in Tāmaki Makaurau their art reflects their ancestral migration as tauiwi and the ongoing connection to whenua and Tangata Whenua Māori.