Unlocking The Truth - Malcolm Brickhouse & Jarad Dawkins
these babies just made my day. old souls.
(Source: vimeo.com)
”If you’re a black artist dealing with non-black issues, that throws people for a loop. If you’re a non-black artist dealing with black issues, that also throws people for a loop. People are mentally lazy, and they want to draw the shortest line between two points.”
via Heavyweight Paint- Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics
Photographer Hélène Amouzou was born in 1969 in Togo. She began taking photos in 2004 after enrolling on a course in Brussels, where she lives and works. Her images - in which bodies are ghostly or overlaid with wallpaper or sandwiched in suitcases - suggest transience: places which the human body can only inhabit temporarily, and humans who are constantly on the move.
Her work is weighted by the depth of her questions about place, being and the baggage that accrues to the black female body. Further, Amouzou’s images question certainties of nation, identity and belonging, suggesting that in-between spaces and un-belonging as the contemporary reality. in her own words: ““I always have the impression to be traveling. I am not Togolese, nor Belgian”
Maxim Vakhovskiy
My friend, Maxim, is creating some incredibly exciting work with his new portraits lately. I need to step my game up to get to his level.
» Check out his amazing Tumblr blog, maximushka.
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BBB
Black on Black. Beauty
On the ivory mask at the center of the shirts:
The pendant mask is believed to have been produced in the early sixteenth century for the King or “Oba” Esigie, the king of Benin, to honor his mother, Idia. The Oba may have worn it at rites commemorating his mother, although today such pendants are worn at annual ceremonies of spiritual renewal and purification.In Benin, ivory is related to the color white, a symbol of ritual purity that is associated with Olokun, god of the sea. As the source of extraordinary wealth and fertility, Olokun is the spiritual counterpart of the “oba”. Ivory is central to the constellation of symbols surrounding Olokun and the “oba”. Not only is it white, but it is itself Benin’s principle commercial commodity and it helped attract the Portuguese traders who also brought wealth to [the “oba”].The mask is a sensitive, idealized portrait, depicting its subject with softly modeled features, bearing inlaid metal and carved scarification marks on the forehead, and wearing bands of coral beads below the chin. In the openwork tiara and collar are carved stylized mudfish and the bearded faces of Portuguese. Because they live both on land and in the water, mudfish represent the king’s dual nature as human and divine…
The top of the pendant is decorated with heads representing the Portuguese, symbolizing Benin’s alliance with and control over Europeans. The Portuguese continued to appear in Benin art long after they had disappeared from Benin itself.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/5d17bf00e31b84d38bfc06795ea818da/tumblr_mm5bwpHwhk1r4u5cuo1_500.png)
BBB
Black on Black. Beauty
On the ivory mask at the center of the shirts:
The pendant mask is believed to have been produced in the early sixteenth century for the King or “Oba” Esigie, the king of Benin, to honor his mother, Idia. The Oba may have worn it at rites commemorating his mother, although today such pendants are worn at annual ceremonies of spiritual renewal and purification.
In Benin, ivory is related to the color white, a symbol of ritual purity that is associated with Olokun, god of the sea. As the source of extraordinary wealth and fertility, Olokun is the spiritual counterpart of the “oba”. Ivory is central to the constellation of symbols surrounding Olokun and the “oba”. Not only is it white, but it is itself Benin’s principle commercial commodity and it helped attract the Portuguese traders who also brought wealth to [the “oba”].
The mask is a sensitive, idealized portrait, depicting its subject with softly modeled features, bearing inlaid metal and carved scarification marks on the forehead, and wearing bands of coral beads below the chin. In the openwork tiara and collar are carved stylized mudfish and the bearded faces of Portuguese. Because they live both on land and in the water, mudfish represent the king’s dual nature as human and divine…The top of the pendant is decorated with heads representing the Portuguese, symbolizing Benin’s alliance with and control over Europeans. The Portuguese continued to appear in Benin art long after they had disappeared from Benin itself.
nodus tollens
n. the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore—that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre—which requires you to go back and reread the chapters you had originally skimmed to get to the good parts, only to learn that all along you were supposed to choose your own adventure.
(Source: dictionaryofobscuresorrows)
MOCAtv Presents DLIHCYOB - boychild - Performativity
“remember you are human. remember the world is over. remember the world is over. remember the world is over. remember you are human.”
boychild IS #apocalypse — http://instagram.com/boychild
boychild
DLIHCYOB
2012
Video, 4:33 minutes
Credits: Director - Mitch Moore
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But you know what is devastating? Living a life you don’t really want because you never had the guts to live your truth. What I mean by ‘your truth’ is what you know to be what you most want to do. The person or people you most want to love. The things that cut you open and ignite your nerves and can send you over the edge but you keep going back because you know, despite everything, that this is what’s meant for you. If nothing else, the reason to do it is this: the truth inside you will win out eventually. Or it will drive you mad. Your truth isn’t a passing thought or feeling that will just dissipate one day. You won’t get over what’s really meant for you. You will only ever become more and more aware that you’re denying yourself the greatest joy in fear of the possibly greatest disappointment. I can’t believe I’m throwing this quote in here, but I can’t think of anything that sums it up better: ‘the brave may not live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all.’
Brianna Wiest (via nezua)
(Source: internal-acceptance-movement)
Tseng Kwong Chi - Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1987
The Ali Forney Center is the largest nationwide organization dedicated to LGBTQ homeless youth.
There are currently 39 items on their Amazon wish list, most being undergarments like tank tops, plain tees, undies and chest binders for the youth they shelter. A majority of the items are less than $20 and the most expensive item is only $35.
Let’s try to help them by Tumblr bombing the shit out the Ali Forney Center with direct donations and purchasing everything on their wish list!
40% of homeless youth in America are LGBTQ, so if you support the queer struggle, reblog this, purchase something from their wish list and get involved!
A few generous people purchased the black and white chest binders (2 of each color) and the ’go girl’ urination device. The binders were the most expensive item on the wish list, everything else is $25 or under and there is currently 36 items left. Lets do this Tumblr!
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We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.
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Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth
Pema Chödrön (via simhanada)
(Source: samsaranmusing)
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If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.
(via romanticedge)
(Source: americanphotomag.com)
