Art by Dan Sekanwagi

Passage To Tradition - In Words

A tradition is formed when an event turns out to be memorable enough for the participants to want to do it again regularly! In many cases the tradition gets to be passed down generations particularly when the later generations don’t come up with ideas of their own to replace the existing ones.

In this enchanting dramatization, stylized characters capture the illusion of the path that may lead to a tradition. Vividly glowing auras intensified by rapid limb movements suggest the frequency of use needed to crystallize a path into a passage. The child represents posterity that follow into the footsteps of earlier generations as if marching to a rendezvous with destiny.

Society is better off without some traditions, however, ideas that could lead to new, more worthwhile traditions should be encouraged and harnessed for humanity to cross new frontiers and expand the scope of our horizons.

"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

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