#melissa meyer

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Melissa Meyer

[mermorfeo]

Hyperfixation so bad I made an oc

Referenced from a Rogue scene

[belovedbluv]

Femmage, also know as feminist collage is any artwork done by women by assembling objects, as by collage, photomontage, etc. It was defined by Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer as an activity “practiced by women using traditional women's techniques to achieve their art—sewing, piecing, hooking, cutting, appliquéing. Meyer and Schapiro, claimed women/femmes to be the inventors of collage, after it was claimed to created by Picasso or Braque. In design studies it is also debate around why craft is not seen as design, some stating the reasons are sexist/misogynistic. “Femmage” work can be traced back to precolonial Africa and continued in maroon communities post colonization. Some same say maroon communities in Suriname have no weaving tradition, the women have since the nineteenth century, turned store-bought cloth into colorfully deco- rated capes, loincloths, scarves, waist-kerchiefs, neckerchiefs, wrap-skirts, baby bonnets, men’s caps, adolescent girls’ pubic aprons, and men’s dance aprons, as well as hammock sheets, hunting sack covers, and draw-string bags for small items such as shotgun cartridges. Cloth is raised in shrines to the ancestors, flown as banners on funeral canoes, offered as gifts, and used as decoration on coffin”

1:Saamaka Maroon shoulder cape, sewn early-20th century by Peepina (Suriname). Collection of Richard and Sally Price. Photo by Antonia Graeber.

2: Cape owned by future Saamaka Headcaptain Faansisonu (ca. 1905–1989)

Richard & Sally Price Collection,

Schomburg Center for Research in

Black Culture, New York

3: Reverse appliqué, early 1990s Musée des Cultures Guyanaises.

4: Chapter 5 New Lives for Ndyuka Women: “Everything’s Changed but the Men”, date and photographer unknown

5: St.-Laurent-du-Maroni 2013. From left to right: 1,2, and 7 are embroidered, 3 and 6 are painted, 4 and 5 are appliqué’d.

Photo byCécile Duro

6: Cross-stitch embroidery

Steven Alfaisi Facebook ca. 2015

7: source unknown

8: source unknown

9: “Miss Saint-Laurent” contestants 2007 Hatt Eaton

[isthataraccoon]

if anyone is planning on reading heartless by Melissa Meyer or has started reading it, be prepared to be absolutely completely WRECKED

[books-in-a-storm]

What's this?

[kindace]

Cinder: Hi.

Kai: Hello.

Cinder: Wanna hang out?

Kai: Yeah, sure.

Thorne: Hey, bro!!!

Cress: hum.. hi?

Thorne: My name is Thoooorne.

Cress: Cress.

Thorne: cool, wanna eat something with me? *Winks*

Cress: Well, yeah, maybe...

Winter: Jaaacin, you are so beeeeautiful, so reeeal, I WANT TO EAT YOU, what do you say?

Jacin: Winter. Are u okay?

Winter: OMG, I MEAN, WANNA EAT WITH ME, NOT THAT I WILL eat You, omg, omg. So sorry.

Jacin: It's it's fine, winter. And of course I will eat with you.

Winter: Okay. I love you.

Jacin: I love you too, friend...

Winter: (｡ŏ﹏ŏ)(｡ŏ﹏ŏ)(｡ŏ﹏ŏ)(｡ŏ﹏ŏ)

Scarlet: Hey, Bitch. Wanna eat with me,bitch?

Wolf: Y yeah, I want, beauty.

Scarlet: do not call me beauty ever again, ok?

Wolf: of course, darling.

Scarlet: I will kill you.

Wolf: kiss me, kiss me.

Scarlet: SHUT UP.

Wolf*whispering*: kiss me... Kiss me..

[psikonauti]

Melissa Meyer 

Rearrangement Series #4, 2018 

Collaged watercolors on paper

[coffeeandrosemary]

“We feel that several criteria determine whether a work can be called femmage. Not all of them appear in a single object. However, the presence of at least half of them should allow the work to be appreciated as femmage. 

1. It is a work by a woman. 2. The activities of saving and collecting are important ingredients. 3. Scraps are essential to the process and are recycled in the work. 4. The theme has a woman-life context. 5. The work has elements of covert imagery. 6. The theme of the work addresses itself to an audience of intimates. 7. It celebrates a private or public event. 8. A diarist's point of view is reflected in the work. 9. There is drawing and/or handwriting sewn in the work. 10. It contains silhouetted images which are fixed on other material. 11. Recognizable images appear in narrative sequence. 12. Abstract forms create a pattern. 13. The work contains photographs or other printed matter. 14. The work has a functional as well as an aesthetic life.”

Waste Not, Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled - Femmage, Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer

Via artcritical.com