Ali has devoted her life to art, healing and play. She believes that life is Art and that the spiritual and sexual are sacred when joined.
Ali is a social justice warrior, guiding groups and individuals as they explore the complexities of racism and internalized oppression. She trains mental health workers to support empowerment for our children.
This balance of play and justice, art and training - while allowing individuals to be fully who they are - is core to Ali.
How do we embrace our own truth, how do we hold sacred our culture, our sexuality, our spirituality, our identity distinct and different from every other individual? Ali Montgomery explores these questions through painting, photography, dance, song, connection to nature, expression of spirituality, and sexuality. Her passion is a force of nature which is evident in her art, training, and spiritual practice.
Ali has explored her African ancestry for over twenty-five years. From this frame, Ali is presenting this series of portraits, based on a few of the attributes traditionally embraced as aspects of God. She hopes these depictions support an understanding of how she views her own embodiment as The Black Woman as God.
Photography by WolfMercury
This project began three year ago when Ali attended the opening event for The Black Woman Is God. Ali was inspired to create a painting addressing the unification of Spirituality and Sexuality which Ali referrers to as the Spirexual Nexus.
Once the painting was created entitled “Kundalini Rising”, Ali then understood there needed to be a photo series in conjunction with the painting. The series depicts aspects of her African roots as a conjurer of The Black Woman as God; embodying the spiritual nexus as warrior and healer – powerful, fierce, sensual, and nurturing.
The series was shot with the intent to be seen through the lens of the most basic communication tool we have, our bodies. Embracing all of who she is in all her facets of being a Black Woman engaged on a journey, in the spiritual act of expression as God.
