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Fabien Verriest’s floral beards made us smile at La Cambre National School of Visual Arts final MA show.

“When you say “no,” and you mean “no,” and the other person, regardless of whether it’s in a situation where somebody wants to attack you or a situation where somebody wants to change your opinion…

When you say no, and the other person continues, you should think immediately — not “how do I make it nice, how do I make it better” — but immediately think why is this person trying to control me because “no” is a complete sentence.”

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Oh Em Gee. I needed this today!

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Wisdom.

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Yes!

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I love.

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A random ball pit is set up in the middle of a city And this is what happens as people approach it.

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They should put this in Times Square. At 1AM.

Awwwww. I love this.

This is awesome.

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i i said awwww way too many times

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And finally!! The photos from my “Fictional Histories” Project.

The project is all about trade beads and fictionalising history to spread objective truth. All histories are interconnected and that’s what’s beautiful. Let’s learn BIG lessons from history and not ignore it’s impact on our lives today. Every object has a story, Every person can be their own historian. Design can facilitate this story-making through Fiction.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Shout out to Lynton Pepper from #WeOwnCameras! on photgraophy, Melodie Briere on Make Up and Hair and my über beautiful models, Keziah Joseph, Victoria van Wassenhove, Innocent Adriko and Stephanie Jedek!!!! You are all awesome. More developments to come, watch this space.

These images and all images on this blog are Copyrighted. Please DO NOT reblog without this caption.

Thank You.x

The show is now on! Old Truman Brewery, Shoreditch, London! Go www.thisiswar.org.uk or search #thisiswar on Twitter for more info!

#This is war #Show #goldsmiths #Sophia Denny #Degree Show #Design

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Acrobatic Performers Travel Within a Circular Mobile Home

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Maïmouna Patrizia Guerresi

As a photographer, sculptor, and installation artist, ‘Maïmouna’ Patrizia Guerresi reveals unique and authentic sensibilities in her narration of the beauty and subtleties of racial diversity and multiculturalism. Over an established career, she has developed her own symbolism, which combines cosmological and ancestral traditions belonging to various European, African, and Asian cultures. Her personal commitment to Baifall Sufism has led her to produce an aesthetic that is able to bridge time, space and civilisations, as well as figuration and abstraction.

The human body is seen as the nucleus and temple of the soul, a place that houses a delicate, higher awareness; the very conduit for encompassing natural and cosmic forces. More about mysticism than any singular religion, her work is visionary in that it restores those elusive qualities of sacredness and unity in our frequently dehumanising and fragmented contemporary visual world. Her classic iconographic style explores the universality of human experience and reclaims the often hidden nurturing powers of feminine energy. Presented as a kind of free flowing epic, the viewer is left to read the significance of her imagery and quietly meditate on its potential to personally engage with its audience. As if her figures were speaking directly to each one of us.

From her earliest experiments with the physicality and archetypal imprinting of the psyche, through to her latest, evermore metaphoric ‘inner constellations’, Maïmouna insists on a cross-cultural discourse and an expansion of the boundaries that normally dictate our individual attitudes. She invites us to see further and to look deeper – past skin colour, preconceptions, and ethnic landscapes – into the wider paradigm of inclusion. She leads us through apparently simple notions of dimensionality into the exquisite, mystical and fragile complexities of life from within. - Rosa Maria Falvo,