Activate Your DNA

Activate Your DNA is a powerful visual reminder that we are all connected to each other and Mother Earth. The piece was created to take your mind to nature in the middle of a busy city. This art will reconnect us to the importance of the elements within and around us. We may not be able to escape to the mountains, but this art will be a daily revelation that we are much more than our routines. I hope it will inspire people to stop and smell the roses with gratitude.

Rebekkah Selassie is an artist based in Los Angeles, also known as Royal Roots. She is passionate about reminding people we are all creators and that art is a healing power we possess. Her works focus on our divine connection with nature, womanhood and her ancestral people; Chorti Maya and Purepecha. Royal Roots highlights the story of her people in Central America and Mexico; and believes the past should be told through their eyes with their stories, not HIStory. Her creations emphasize their majestic kingdoms, unmatched riches and culture, abundant lands; great civilizations, that had master mathematicians, astrologists and architects that built structures that marvel the world to this day.

She is currently working on an acrylic series of her (S)heros, powerful women who defended their people and their lands called She Wears Her Heart On Her Sleeves, featuring portraits of Honduran land and water defender, Berta Cáceres, American human rights defender, Assata Shakur and African environmentalist, Wangari Mattai and more. You can follow her journey and see her work on Instagram @royalrootsarte