Life Through A Lens

Exploring = Life

[jasonincalifornia]

Here’s Looking at You - Bluff Cove from each end of the cove. Palos Verdes, CA

Prints/Society6

[gon-artacho]

buenos aires

[arethalouisefranklin-blog]

Aretha by Sam Emerson, 1976

[tae-kun]

BLACK SUPPORT FOLLOW TRAIN!!!

IM SO TIED OF SEEING CELEBRITY OR ALREADY POPULAR STUFF ON MY DASH

I WANNA SEE NEW IDEAS, NEW CONTENT, NEW FACES!!

IF YOU’RE STRUGGLING OR STARTING SOMETHING NEW, REBLOG THIS WITH WHATEVER YOU’RE WORKING ON SO I CAN FOLLOW AND SHOW SUPPORT.

I DON’T CARE IF YOU:

Sing and or Rap ANY GENRE

Beat Producer ANY GENRE

Write Short Stories or Poetry ANY GENRE

Create Art or Comics OF ANY STYLE

New YouTuber or YouTuber trying to gain an audience ANY KIND OF CHANNEL

Screen Playwrighter ANY GENRE

Wattpad story writer ANY GENRE

Podcast ANY TOPIC

Cosplayer

Twitch Streamer

Movie reviewer

Modeler IDC IF YOU DON’T THINK YOU CUTE ENOUGH, I THINK YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL

Makeup artist, IDC IF YOU CAN’T AFFORD NEW MAKEUP, IMPRESS ME WITH A SHARPIE AND SOME GLITTER

Diy tutorials

Dancer ANY STYLE

Clothes Reviewer ANY SIZE IDC IF YOU XXXXXXL

Hair Product Reviewer

Photographer or Videographer

Animator BEGINNER OR PRO

YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE!!!

IF YOU DON’T HAVE A SUBSCRIBER I’LL BE YOUR FIRST SUBSCRIBER

IF YOU AIN’T GETTING NO LIKES OR COMMENTS THEN GODDAMIT IMA LIKE AND COMMENT!!

IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW THAT YOU’RE PASSIONATE ABOUT, THEN THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR YOU TO NOT REBLOG THIS WITH YOUR CONTENT.

I DON’T CARE IF YOU SHY, WE ALL SHY AND NERVOUS IN THIS BITCH!

I WANT TO SEE THIS POST AND MY DASH COLORED WITH NEW IDEAS AND CONTENT

IF YOU NOT MAKING CONTENT BUT YA FRIEND OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS THEN TAG THEM IN IT SO I CAN SEE EM!!

REGARDLESS NO ONE HAS ANY EXCUSE TO NOT REBLOG THIS TO SUPPORT OR HELP SOMEONE!!

WE GON MAKE EACH OTHER GREAT!!!

👸🏿👸🏾🙇🏿‍♀️🙇🏾‍♀️🤷🏿‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🙇🏾‍♂️🙇🏿‍♂️🤴🏾🤴🏿

[davidhap]

[hplyrikz]

““Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.””

— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (via hplyrikz)

[sinnamonscouture]

Tessa Thompson, Danai Gurira & Chloe X Halle for Rodarte Fall/Winter 2018

[yoonseok-deactivated20190701]

please take care of yourself and keep an eye on your friends. you never know. so just,, try to be kinder. i love you

[jacquelindeleon]

✨🔮Amethyst🔮✨ ipad pro + @procreate . #illustration #witch #witchcraft #amethyst #crystals #artistsoninstagram #jacquelindeleon #ipadpro http://ift.tt/2BuG6Ez

[schuhcollection]

morning

[itscolossal]

The Phenomenon Of “Crown Shyness” Where Trees Avoid Touching

[jturn]

no homosynthesis

[kas-e]

The Great Salt Lake

[freshbrewedlife]

[forestwonders-deactivated202602]

Maike Descher | @maike_descher

[dennybitte]

wild purple

by Denny Bitte

[medievalpoc]

Original Twitter Thread

Response Thread

It’s been my experience that viewing art that empowers, versus art that dehumanizes you/representations of “you”, is a difference that can be felt immediately & viscerally.

Part of why I post European art is because most Americans have been physiologically trained to value that art style or origin (through education, media exposure, and cultural contexts given), but to devalue representations of people of color.

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It’s been my observation that this either resolves or creates a conflict in the viewer, and which of those it does depends on who the viewer is.

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Seeing a positive and (in this context) valuable representation of a person who is not white creates a conflict in a white viewer only if they’ve built their entire sense of self and identity in the idea that ONLY white people can have value, history, dignity, and other traits they associate with these artworks. This is an identity and value system based entirely in exclusion, and who is NOT allowed to “claim” what they view as “cultural accomplishment.”

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However, for someone who is living the conflict of wanting to value your identity as a person of color, BUT is surrounded by white supremacist values and representation, seeing an artwork like this:

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might help to resolve an existing conflict between valuing the self, and living in a culture that only values a particular art style and a specific manner of presenting it.

Certainly this conflict doesn’t exist for everyone, but I know that it did for me. Also, this work is certainly Eurocentric, and it truly gladdens me that more and more people are looking outside the sphere of European and Eurocentric art and creating art archives like East Is Everywhere, which centers Asia and the Middle East, other ways of viewing early modern and classical antiquity global cultures or intercultural interactions in the work of Dr Caitlin R Green, and focus on interdisciplinary diversity and individual perspectives at the margins of the field at The Medieval Middle.

Art has always affected my life, the way I feel about myself, and the society I live in.  Researching and looking for artworks that might fall outside the narrative my culture has pushed onto me has been incredibly freeing and inspiring to me personally, and it’s my hope this information can find its way into the hands of anyone who might be able to benefit from it.

[umsociofobico]

[blackfashion]

Model MicQui Monique photographed by @Oye_Diran