nihilism, the belief that everything, specially human existence, is meaningless. it's the rejection of all religious and moral values, the acceptance that there's no truth, no purpose.
collectivism, the practice or principle of prioritising a group, a collective, over any individual within it.
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#ink #tattoodesign #tattooideas #minimalism #philosophy #nihilism #collectivism #tattoos #flash
anthropocentrism, human centered point of view. as if humans were the only or primary holders of moral standing.
structuralism, structure is key. human experience cannot be understood in isolation, just by way of its relationship to a broader structure.
rationalism, human reason is all. reason is the foundation of certainty in knowledge.
free will, unimpended choice. being able to choose a course of action free of sociocultural constraints.
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#tattoodesign #ink #philosophy #rationalism #anthropocentrism #structuralism #freewill #tattooideas
This was long overdue. Some things are hard to overcome.
My therapist told me to make a piece about something I've been struggling with for years and after making me realise how wrong my point of view was, she then asked me to destroy it as part of a ritual to let my expectations go.
I chose acrylics because that's how I started painting twelve years ago and it's been a long while since then.
The plants I chose were a bird of paradise, two red carnations, eucalyptus, pine and rosemary, using all those with some tissues I used during my first session of therapy, the previous sketches and some papers to make a fire.
#gototherapy #therapyiscool
03 #BioRitme2019
Cards: Stay connected, loneliness will pass.
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Otro día tranquilo. Mañana de sol, dibujos y letras en el pantano y en la hamaca. Quise ir al taller de autodefensa pero no quedaban plazas así que me fui a dar vueltas y comí mientras las vecinas desayunaban.
Luego nos fuimos al concierto de Maruja Limón, que estuvo genial y estaba llenísimo de gente, costaba encontrar sitio en la sombra y había algunes valientes al sol. Que con el ambiente que propiciaban, yo lo entiendo, la verdad.
Al acabar volvimos a las tiendas, fuimos para la piscina aprovechando que la gente empezaba a moverse hacia la zona de conciertos y estuvimos ahí hasta que empezó a bajar el sol.
De ahí me fui a prepararme para Mafalda, aunque al final me dió pereza ir y acabé en Leaving Babylon que tocaban en un escenario precioso. Un acierto enorme, la verdad, disfruté muchísimo su música.
El ambiente de este sitio es idílico. Jamás me he sentido tan cómoda entre multitudes ni he podido bajar la guardia de este modo. ❤️
01 #BioRitme2019 :
Cards: After a period of deep connections, isolation might be needed to continue in the right direction.
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Después de situarme y ver qués y cuándos del programa, me di cuenta, harto contenta, de que NADA se me solapaba y podía ir a todo lo que me apetecía con CALMA.
Cogí una plaza de última hora en los talleres de @zinteta justo cuando ponían el cartel de que no quedaban plazas para el resto del festi y no podría haber tenido mejor primera experiencia.
Eramos un grupo variado, todes marcábamos nuestros límites sin reparo ni problema. Nos pintamos unes a otres como forma de cuidado. Después de esto, dejé de sentirme insegura estando desnuda.
Hay duchas mixtas, todas las piscinas y el pantano son bañador-opcional.
Hay carteles por todas partes sobre protocolos de acción en caso de agresión machista y con el número del punto lila.
Antes y después de cada concierto hacen recordatorios con trocitos de canciones que vienen al festival para recordar valores ecologistas y feministas.
Tribade fue el cierre de mi día y recordatorio de que no hay quien pare la revolución feminista.
Es una lástima que este festi sea la excepción a la norma, porque la organización es increíble.
Dora Maar was a very talented surrealist painter, photographer and poet.
Her work developed quickly from acute poetic street realism to Surrealist manipulations. She was particularly apt at making work out of her own hidden and dizzying emotional interior - as well as the desire to retreat from it.
Regretfully, she met Picasso, who repeatedly told her that “every photographer was merely a painter waiting to be released”, ignoring what Maar was actually bringing to the 20th century with her outstanding work.
Maar's earliest surviving photographs were taken in the early 1920s with a Rolleiflex camera. From that moment, she started working and collaborating with photographers such as Pierre Kéfer, Brassaï, Louis-Victor Emmanuel Sougez, Louis Chavance and frequented the October group, formed around Jacques Prévert and Max Morise after their break from surrealism. The influence surrealism had in her could be seen early on in her career. She was one of the signatures in André Breton’s tract "Appeal to the struggle". She was aware of what the political climate was and sided with the leftists, often depicting the realities of what the depression brought. She was part of a leftist association called “Masses,” where she first met Georges Bataille, an anti-fascist organization called "The Union of Intellectuals Against Fascism" and a radical collective of left-wing actors and writers called October.
Her work, as many other women before, was eclipsed by her relationship with one of the many abusive and harmful so-called geniuses, in her case it was Picasso. Upon her separation from Picasso, Maar experienced a nervous breakdown. In later life, she moved from Paris to rural Provence and painted mainly abstract landscapes and melancholy still lifes. Despite her achievements, following their destructive relationship, Maar lived partially in the shadow of Picasso's words; she never returned to photography, the medium through which her exquisite and unusual character shines so brightly.
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#illustration #ink #women #poet #photography #surrealism #doramaar #photographer #painter #womeninspiringwomen
Alfonsina Storni
[TW: Suicide]
Swiss-born Argentinian poet of the modernist period, in which she didn’t seem to fit.
She left her family and her native tongue when she was young to start a life in Buenos Aires. She wanted to be a woman and a writer and did not want to renounce to neither.
Advocate for women’s rights in Argentina, she was a working class, single teenage mom herself. There and then, she starts to write “para no morir” (to not die).
She was a key contributor to feminist poetry, it was one of her principal innovations as a poet but it came with a price. Men such as Jose Luis Borges and Eduardo Gonzalez Lanuza used their pull and influence to criticise her work harshly, blinded by their own bias as privileged men. They couldn’t take the directness in Storni’s writing when her themes were eroticism, womanhood and feminism. Being an outspoken woman was controversial.
Her early poetry is well regarded and highly praised today though.
Storni was among the first women to find success in the male-dominated arenas of literature and theater in Argentina, and as such, developed a unique and valuable voice that holds particular relevance in Latin American poetry.
At age 43, Storni was diagnosed with cancer, and after three years and a radical mastectomy, the cancer persisted. Around 1:00 AM on Tuesday, 25 October 1938. Storni left her room and headed towards the sea at La Perla beach in Mar del Plata, Argentina and died by suicide.
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#ink #drawing #illustration #instart #womeninspiringwomen #alfonsinastorni #poet #poetry #feminism
Lou-Andreas Salomé
Lou-Andreas Salomé killed God when she was a child.
I was fourteen when I became obsessed with Nietzsche. I went to Catholic school, so reading someone say “we killed God” at a time where I thought I might be the only atheist on Earth was almost a relief. I tried to understand Nietzsche then and I'm still at it, so I tried to read everything I could about him. Then, I read that he proposed twice to this one woman, Lou-Andreas Salomé. Just that small mention was enough to catch my eye and start digging and I kept her as a role model throughout my adolescence.
Lou was many things: psychoanalyst, poet, essayist, a well traveled author... but not someone’s wife. Well, she did marry once, but it was a celibate marriage, while having other relationships, mainly with her work. But all that was way after she met her feminist role model, Malwida von Meysenburg and started an intellectual commune with Paul Reé and Nietzsche, with whom she toured through Switzerland and Italy.
To be a woman in the late 1800s, live among men, not marry, have open relationships and write about sensitive topics such as erotism, theology or politics takes a lot of bravery.
She wasn’t just unconventional, she was exceptional.
Even her autobiography shows that. She’s not exposing facts in a linear way, but jumping from anecdote or fact to reflections on her context. She’s not interested in sequential descriptions, no, she wants the thread of her autobiography to be the search of deeper meaning and she does succeed at that.
She was friends with Freud who was her mentor as psychoanalyst, had an intense relationship with Rilke and was overall surrounded by patrons of the arts, intellectuals and artists.
While looking for pieces of her work in libraries or stores, I realised that most of what remains published of hers is correspondence with influential men. Lou’s genius has been eclipsed for a long time by her relationships, even though most of them loved and liked her for her intellectual drive, independence and self-possessedness.
