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huariqueje

A still life with bread, butter and a knife - Sal Meijer

Dutch, 1877-1965

Oil on cardboard , 27 x 34.5 cm.

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Mona Hatoum, Grater Divide, 2002 Mild steel, 204 cm x variable width and depth

earnedmagic

Mona Hatoum is a Palestinian artist. From Artform’s 2021 Rape is a Border:

Take Grater Divide, 2002. The work is ridiculous: a standing metal cheese grater more than six feet high. Installed in a gallery, it works as a room divider, but the holes make privacy impossible. The wall is a weapon rather than a shield: A person undressing behind it could be cut as well as peeped at, opened up by sharp edges made for shredding. The work is not only an enlargement of a grater, however, but also a miniaturization of a divide, prototyping, in particular, the West Bank barrier Israel had begun to construct on appropriated Palestinian land. A person traveling through a border checkpoint may be asked to undress—strip searches are not prohibited by Israeli law. In the United States, they have been allowed ever since the 1985 Supreme Court case United States v. Rosa Elvira Montoya de Hernandez, which originated with the cavity search of Hernandez, who was traveling to Los Angeles from Colombia. In both countries, the coercive invasion of bodies is more likely to be visited on people of color, who are disproportionately singled out for selective or heightened “screening.” This word’s very meaning is reframed, or enlarged, by the Grater Divide. Gloria Anzaldúa, the queer Chicana theorist of Borderlands/La Frontera (1987), called the United States–Mexico border an “open wound” where “the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” All borders are graters: not solid walls but permeable ones whose pores are sharpened to pierce what passes through.

vian-cloe-blog

Église de Santa María à Iguácel (Huesca).

shiftythrifting

a very unsettling plate found in Cracow, Poland

mothcub

podencos

jumpedoverthemoon

Physically I’m here but mentally I’m tending to the strawberry patch outside my forest cottage and listening to the ferns rustling in the cool breeze

natgeofound

Former soldiers study cake decorating at a vocational school in Puerto Rico, April 1951. Photograph by Justin Locke, National Geographic

yesterdaysprint

Des Moines Tribune, Iowa, December 20, 1928

fillielitsa

A woman is drying incense sticks, a process in making incense. Vietnamese believe that incense is a tool to connect the living with the spirits. When people burn incense, they can talk to spirits and pray.