A RETURN TO RIGHT RELATIONSHIP...
God Is / Sustenance is a remembering and a return to reverence, a public ritual honoring the divinity in ourselves and the land.
body as altar.
god is
A living presence seated in ceremony. Draped in black, radiant and unhidden. Here, divinity is not abstract. It is embodied. It breathes.Participants are invited to sit, to make offering, to witness themselves reflected as sacred. God Is insists that reverence begins in recognition.
land as altar.
SUSTENANCE
A constellation of markers placed across the landscape. Each one a call to listen. To kneel. To breathe differently.Through sound, stillness, and offering, Sustenance restores conversation with the earth. It asks us to move from extraction to reciprocity, from passing through to standing in relationship.
our framework
This project is built on four commitments that restore shared divinity, reciprocity with the land, cyclical renewal, and conscious future building.
1. all are divine
Divinity was never meant to be hoarded. For generations, power and holiness have been crowned, gated, and privatized, as if the sacred were a limited resource. God Is / Sustenance restores what was taken into enclosure. When a body long misread sits as altar and does not shrink, it's not spectacle, it's correction. The sacred is returned to, and in that return we begin to remember that radiance is not reserved for a few.
2. Restoring Reciprocity
The earth is not backdrop or supply. She is continuity, elder, origin. Sustenance invites us back into conversation with the ground beneath our feet, asking us to listen where we once extracted and to offer where we once consumed. This work is not an invention but a remembering, a reconnection with our own capacity for indigeneity without appropriation. We approach each place with humility, in dialogue with the land itself and in outreach to its original stewards, honoring the wisdom they've built.
3. (Re)turning
We have been taught a life of separation. Separated from soil, from sensation, from one another. Orphaned from the homes within our own bodies and from the greater body that holds us. Yet the earth has always modeled abundance. In her seasons we see loss turn to nourishment and rest turn to bloom. This work is a practice of returning to that rhythm. Through stillness and offering, we learn again that renewal is built into the design of life. God Is demonstrates that divinity is not rooted in limitation or hierarchy, but in recognition. When we recognize the sacred within ourselves, we reconnect to our own truths and internal rhythms, just as Sustenance reconnects us to the earth’s rhythms. In that shared remembering, we move toward expansion, restoration, and belonging.
4. re(member) the future
Narratives shape what we become. When divinity is distant, we live in scarcity, and when the land is invisible, we live in extraction.
God Is / Sustenance offers another devotion, one practiced daily in breath and body, where ancient wisdom stands in conversation with our present consciousness and something new is formed. This is not nostalgia but co creation, a remembering that moves forward, composing new language from enduring truths. As we turn toward the land and toward ourselves, we begin rewriting the future within the present moment, planting possibility through ritual, repetition, and relationship rather than waiting for systems that have forgotten us to imagine it on our behalf. What we ritualize becomes instinct. What becomes instinct becomes culture. And culture becomes destiny.
Regina Victor is a writer, director, multidisciplinary artist, and critic whose work bridges storytelling, cultural critique, and community practice. As founder of Rescripted and a leader in Chicago’s arts ecosystem, they amplify under-represented voices and expand the language of creativity.
Courtney Alexander is a multidisciplinary artist and creator of Dust II Onyx, the first widely distributed tarot deck by a Black artist. With work featured internationally across museums, collections, and publications, she creates immersive ritual performances and installations that center embodied divinity, ancestral memory, and collective transformation.
Funding & Support
Honored 3Arts Awardees
3Arts is a highly respected Chicago arts organization that provides unrestricted awards to artists with a track record of excellence and impact. As current 3Arts Award recipients, we are in an active campaign cycle in which the organization will contribute one third of the total funds raised to bring this work to life.
seed
$10 - $50
Every garden begins with a seed. It joins many others to help this work take root. We are grateful for your trust and your willingness to stand with us.
$10 you receive Guided Land Meditation (digital)
$25 you receive a Postcard Print
$50 you receive a 5 x 8.25 Sustenance Notebook
foundation
$100 - $250
To give at this level is to help strengthen the circle around this work. Your generosity strengthens the ground beneath this work.
You receive all in the seed tier plus
$100 you receive a Sigil Scarf Convertible Tote
$250 you receive Land Ritual Kit
steward
$500 +
Stewards help sustain not only a single installation, but a continuing practice of land, ritual, and shared transformation.
You receive all in the seed and foundation tier plus
$500 you receive a Private Reading with Regina or Courtney (60–75 min)
$800+ you receive All the Above plus special exclusive gift and acknowledgment as a Steward of Sustenance
Thank you
Thank you for joining us.You are now part of the unfolding of God Is / Sustenance.. We do not believe in flooding your inbox. We will reach out periodically with updates, reflections, and invitationsWe’re grateful you’re here.