A Fruiting Body

Way too earnest on the internet. She/her

[enchantedbook]

"Moon Walker" by Emiko Aida.

[imathers]

[wovi]

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simone weil

[wovi]

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ursula k. leguin

[thebeautifulcomics]

Here (1989) by Richard mcguire (raw magazine)

[tasteslikesalt]

[nobrashfestivity]

Morris Hirschfield, Girl with Angora Cat,1944.

[fatartappreciation]

Sumo (2019) with superb photographer Sylvie Blum and her divinely beautiful subject, Angelina Duplisea, with her devastatingly iconic derriere, a total masterpiece of human perfection!

[nobrashfestivity]

Utagawa Shigenobu

Innumerable species of fish, 1847-1848

[critical-objects-deactivated202]

Laura Aguilar is a Los Angeles-based photographer whose work mines the intersection between feminism, body image, queer politics, and latinx identity. Her earliest works depicted latina lesbians in intimate portraits, calling to mind the frankness of Catherine Opie, while her best known series features self-portraits of Aguilar posed nude in the California desert landscape. These photographs are instantly striking, finding in the artist’s body formal elements that echo the landscape itself, as in its doubling here with the giant rock that eludes the frame. Aguilar also forces our gaze onto a body that does not conform to stereotypical images of latinx or feminine identity—a body type that is not so much othered as invisible, despite its ubiquity. The artist originally began to produce these photos as a means of grappling with her own issues with weight and self-acceptance, but quickly came to see them as something more. They offer a profound, ambivalent vision of woman and nature. We see Aguilar dissolve into the landscape in search of anonymity, at the same time that she reclaims the pride and beauty in her body far removed from the society that rejects it.

Laura Aguilar, Grounded #111, 1992

[quantumshade]

everyone be quiet. marsha with her snoopy.

[nobrashfestivity]

Nils Dardel, The Dying Dandy, 1918 Photo: Prallan Allsten

[radicalgraff]

"It doesn't have to be like this. We could have it so much better"

Calligraffiti in Chicago, Illinois

[souvenirs]

[spitfaggot]

happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)

[anxeious]

[fatartappreciation]

The Three Graces by the late photographer Leonard Nimoy (yes, Spock from Star Trek!) from his Full Body Project

[nobrashfestivity]

Loie Fuller, early 1900′s

[bobbole]

Keith Haring, Altarpiece: The Life of Christ