LETS MAKE BEAUTY

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I am on a journey home and I see a woman flexing her arm  She is flexing her arm as she waits to depart on her journey home too She is flexing and she is watching the tissue of her arm form in definition of it’s gained strength, and soften under her flesh which is textured in age old scars. There are many scars where she watches her muscle take shape and relax again. To say she is brave is only an additional burden to perhaps the burden she has already tried to appease in the past. For bravery sometimes is a tax none of us wish to pay but only wish to have the relief post its atonement. But I still thinks she’s brave and I hope in the right moment in time she thinks she is too.  I am on a journey home and there is a man singing a song to himself about a side of paradise that may or may not exist. He smells of a thousand cigarettes he has smoked beyond the equivalent years of his life time and maybe he is on his journey home too. He sings about a side of paradise that I know doesn’t exist but I hope in the right moment in time he lives there till the embers of his last well earned cigarette may burn and finally smoulder into an infinite night sky.  I am on a journey home and I think of all the kind things I would have liked to have said to the woman flexing her arm and the man singing of another side of paradise and I hope someone says something kind to the both of them sometime soon. 

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I was feverish with sensation pt.2

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I was feverish with sensation

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Giving yourself space and time to understand pain as healing.

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I can’t go anywhere anymore.  I can’t stand at the set of lights at the major intersection, I can’t sit by that window and I can’t think about warm summer nights for too long. I can’t walk into that venue, or that one, or that one, without retracing each time I may have seen the corner of your mouth turn into a smile while looking down at me, over there, or over there. I can’t walk to the left of my home anymore without thinking of the afternoon we walked side by side and cried while we watched the birds fly over the grass and into the trees towards the zoo. I asked you what would happen to us and you told me you didn’t want to answer me. I can’t go anywhere anymore.

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Thank you @miamuse_official

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From the final weekend of Blacklist, already feels like too many moons ago. #darkmofo #blacklist

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I spend every waking moment trying to fix myself. I am up, and out, and doing what I need to do, being at work, being social, choosing which almond milk to buy without feeling guilty for spending 3 dollars, and in every single shadow of these mundane tasks or commitments I am just trying to fix myself so badly, so desperately. I just want a day to be okay, and to never have to think about fixing a single thought.

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A photo I attempted to upload three times on instagram today was deleted within seconds of being viewable. Despite my reluctant attempts at reducing my deemed innapropriate female form to be censored alligning with the offensive standards of the enforced policies, clearly the insinuation that I may be at all a confident woman wanting to assert her body as her own is still too much. I will not be invisible and erased from this world more than I already am within my identity. I will not accept being subjugated even within what should be the harmless measures of nudity, on a sexist biased. The harm stimulated through oppressive erasure is unconditional damage in comparison to the visibility of my body, thus making my body my choice of weapon to state my right to freedom and presence in this fucked misogynistic world.

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Spend the day accepting and admiring the strength of others when you feel unable to find strength in yourself. 'S.O.S Starification Object Series' Hannah Wilke, 1974 "This photographic series arose from live performance where Wilke, topless, flirted with her audience as they chewed pieces of gum, which she then collected and arranged on the surface of her skin. These were modelled into labial shapes, derived from her exploration of vulvar sculptural forms from the late 1950s onwards. Marking her body as 'feminine' they also suggested historical scars. 'To also remember that as a New, during the war, I would have been branded and buried had I not been born in America. Starification- Scarification...Jew, Black, Christian, Muslim... Labelling people instead of listening to them... Judging according to primitive prejudices. Marxism and Art. Fascistic feelings, internal wounds, made from external situations.' 'Visual prejudice has caused world wars, mutilation, hostility and alienation generated by fear of "the other". Self-hatred is an economic necessity, a capitalistic, totalitarian, religious invention used to control the masses through the denial of the importance of a body language... The pride, power and pleasure of one's own sexual being threatens cultural achievement. Unless it can be made into a commodity that has economic and social utility." - Wilke Artist's statement 1977,1980"

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An unbelievably beautiful morning found @danielklaas and I out the front of my home today, briskly taking partially nude photos before any of my neighbour's could call the police on me and have me arrested.

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How To Have A Bad Day- self potrait.

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A very delayed little gem of the unspeakably talented Hue Blanes and @j_a_z_z_p_a_r_t_y at Golden Plains Festival from my hiding spot side of stage. Styled by the dream babe @carlosmangubat in a tasty selection of #jacklondon threads. . #goldenplains #jazzparty #carlosmangubat (at Golden Plains Festival)

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A lost treasure @danielklaas found from almost a year ago. Censored.

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Sometimes, everything feels so lifeless without you

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Now Hear This- Rayna Fahey from Hidden Agenda at Trocadero yesterday. Fucking yes. (Day two of surrounding myself with exceptional humans to avoid thinking about the assholes around me too)

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'Women Here and Now' Interior Scroll- Carolee Schneemann (Spending the day surrounded by exceptional humans to try and not think about all the assholes around me too.)