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Amanda. 26. Hi :) side momblog babysleigh

[bunnypets]

Garden cake by cantstopcakes

[animentality]

[sorrysomethingwentwrong]

Chris Judge Art !

[the-big-mood]

[simena]

Викентий Лукиянов

[readingworldwanderer]

You may think the phrase "He's just a little guy" comes from internet memes, but you would be wrong.

The true origin of the phrase belongs to celebrated author Tamora Pierce, in her 1983 novel Alanna: The First Adventure, when Gary says, "Still—what can Alan do for you? He's just a little guy"(49).

Thus, whenever we say of someone or some creature that they are "just a little guy," what we are really saying is that they are a short redheaded knight-in-training with some sort of Gender going on who will kick your butt given half a chance.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. May we all be the little guys we wish to see in the world.

Pierce, Tamora. Alanna: The First Adventure. New York, Random House, 1983.

[dearparentheses]

Paul Evans

[hthrrloooo]

"December 28," Hal Borland's Twelve Moons of the Year

[urgetocreate]

Sergiu Ciochina (Moldovan b.2001), Forest of Opal Shadows, France, 2025, Oil on canvas

[hthrrloooo]

[dogdykeafternoon]

when i forget what alkaline compound is used in traditional soap making and the soap ghost shows up to remind me

[jabberding0]

Pottery troubles

[sorrrowfull]

[urgetocreate]

Scott Prior (American b.1949), Laundry Line in Autumn, 2016, Oil on linen

[escuerzoresucitado]

[papillonnne]

ANNIE HSIAO-CHING WANG

ARTIST

[ifebrownsugar]

[ifebrownsugar]

[astridflies]

The artist statement is pretty awesome too.

As an artist, Mother is wise in its creation. Mother not only brings forth life but also a continuous matrix of experiences between Mother and Child. Motherhood is a long-term process filled with a myriad of complex emotions. This complexity cannot be solely expressed through saccharine images of Mother and Child, nor by the image of the embodied Mother willingly sacrificing herself for the sake of her children.

All these motherhood stereotypes are to Annie Wang a tedious and inevitable sermon that offers her no solace. It is from this that the original motivation for this series derives. Starting from the first self-portrait taken in 2001, a day before giving birth, she and her son would take a new photo together in front of the previous formal family photo every time they had a common life experience. Thus, the different stages of life and appearances merge to form a single layer.

These Mother and Child photos, create a dialogue compressed into a peculiar space. From this dimension emerges a complicated, fragmented, and diverse recording of motherhood. Annie has been working on this project for 22 years and will continue to do so, using “mise en abyme” as an autobiographical approach to writing history. Hoping that through the accumulation of years and the reappearance of her own motherhood, she can reverse the stereotype that mothers must sacrifice, and thus redefine motherhood. She wants to demonstrate that within the same period of motherhood, the roles of artist and mother can transform from a difficult coexistence into a fusion.

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