Dakota B Relatively Human

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I think about this more often than I should

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I wanna be in love but also yikes

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Elisa Meliani by David Bellemere

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Iconic

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someone’s not having a good Kia Summer Sales Event

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lmao 

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Glitter and Stars Tulle Socks

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i miss 2009

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what the fuck

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Wasma Manour: Single Saudi Women

Artist Statement:

Since 2008, my photography explored the spatial and material constructions of Saudi women who do not fit the stereotype: women who have chosen to live alone despite their belonging to a culture where male presence, shaping lives and spaces, is the norm. Pictorial conventions in mass media exhibited recurring visual tropes that stereotype and limit Saudi women to being placed under two categories: she is either passive, docile and therefore in crisis, or defiant, rebellious and consequently liberated. The women I’ve met and photographed revealed a complex set of negotiations made to reconcile with their identities and assert their sense of individualism. My work interrogates these two polar existences by showing that the participants exist and function in a wide area between them. It could be argued by some that my choice of apparatus is politically motivated. Especially since issues concerning Saudi women’s visibility have been a subject of heated debates of two opposing and equally hegemonic headings: ‘liberation’ and ‘domination’. I should clarify that the position I hold both as photographer and citizen belongs to neither camps. The hope and aim of my project from the outset is to bring forth an alternative, and more encompassing, view of what it means to be a single Saudi woman.  This group is of particular interest for visual enquiry, and unlike previous attempts utilized to ‘interrogate’ Saudi women, I considered the potential a multi faceted approach, by giving the women I’ve met and worked the opportunity to discuss (c-type prints, 8" x 10") and reveal their identities through their narratives, their spaces and their things. My personal investment in this endeavor was encouraged by the diversity of experiences I have encountered. And to illustrate that even through photography, I was able to capture the many realities and the plentiful negotiations that are worked out on a daily basis. The challenge was to aesthetically narrate the multifarious ways in which Saudi women assert their subjectivity. And to create images from interacting with their worlds. The objective, therefore, has been (and still remains) to represent that rich world in a plethora of settings and spaces, and hope to transmit some of its texture and flavor.  – Wasma Mansour, 2012

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Ya but you gotta specify… frost glacier freeze or cool blue you can’t just say “blue” bc there’s more than one blue….

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blue and light blue nice try officer

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1961

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Scorpio - Eternal’s Princess 

The revering figures of Scorpio are represented often in text - Hades being death himself, the formidable force uncomfortable truth, and the masked assassin. But deep down in the halls where Hades rules there is a throne glistening in sea and soul, the throne for the Princess who valiantly guards the threshold with ferocious winds and demons coursing through her hair. The blood of her fought battles tattooed into her skin, her eyes ablaze with the power and prestige of ruling the underworld. That’s no easy task for someone who thought she was a mere girl, the duty of taking souls on journeys and extracting lies and traumas like a psychic surgeon. She oozes magnetism and prowess, her presence is as noticeable as her absence, and in some way she is always watching, observing, and calculating. Even with her high heels and contouring done, her swords are always raised in some form, she knows of the battle to survive life itself, she is the sign where the second great battle is undertaken. She is the sacred governor of ‘the initiates’, and her job contract in the underworld can consume her whole world. Her serpents are constantly slithering into the material, mimicking lovers and betrayals, whispering lies and betrayal, sometimes triggering destructive paranoia. She can be forced to spend so much time on these crusades that she loses touch with everything around her. Mars is the ruler of Scorpio and the ruler of blood itself. Blood is a symbol of life, death, suffering, vitality, and salvation. She also rules iron, orgasm, arousal, and carnal passions. The feminisation of Mars through Scorpio allows for meaningful conflict that generates personal and soul development. There is no lack of courage or fight in Scorpio. She must defend her crown with the claws of the scorpion, she must be unrelenting, impossible to catch, and cryptic. The princess doesn’t want to be caught losing her mind with too much soul, she doesn’t want to be crucified. The tests she undertakes are invisible, but ultimately real. She clutches the keys that unlock the underworld, knowing that she contains the greatest secret. 

-C.

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