#lose your mother

[altrbody]

"I walked along with the lingering thought that I knew nothing about the history of my late father and the lineage of my black ancestors; my ancestral memory felt akin to the iridescent surface of a bubble, like a feeling of loss upon awakening from a dream impossible for me to recall.

This series feels like the abstract idea that I have of myself, the acceptance that forgetting is also a starting point and a fleeting, necessary memory. Sama Guent Guii, in which my memory is a dream.

We are never the same when we wake up.

I have to think about this more...I see in me, deep within me, the traces of my ancestors. I am the past that resurfaces. A past that cannot be destroyed, nor diminished. I am the sedimentary rock of this fossilized past, the trace of living organisms...abstract in sensation...in reverie...

Where am I from? Who am I?

I am the past which reappears

I am what is transformed by their memories and my memories

I am these black bodies that I do not recognize

I am this blur

I am made of memory and oblivion

I am this monument of nature, this being that is continually being reborn

This other, who sees themselves as the other."

--Mame-Diarra Niang

[dmdunamancer]

From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson

"Artist Ayana V. Jackson creates an undersea realm honoring those who jumped or were thrown overboard during the trans-Atlantic slave trade." (Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023)

Where There Is No Origin But Memory I

The Self-Forgetfulness of Belonging Will Never Be Mine I

Consider the Sky and the Sea

Some People Have Spiritual Eyes II (featuring the dress which also appears as "Use the Stars to Fix a Celestial Navigation Point," with materials including Ghanaian currency, paste, cotton, raffia reed fans)

When the Spirit of Kalunda Comes So Does Kianda

Some People Have Spiritual Eyes I

Reliquary: The Sea Has Nothing to Offer but a Well-Executed Grave

It is Only When You Lose Your Mother That She Becomes Myth

I Summon the Voice from the Deep I

[images from the official exhibition website]

Also -- for those interested, many of these garments and models appear in video-works in collaboration with other artists! Very cool.

[autismmydearwatson]

Every time I watch Dune I forget about it but I'm foaming at the mouth over how Paul has a vision of himself as a powerful, respected, divine figure with millions worshipping him and he just says "Somebody help me"

[each-uisge-enthusiast]

the modern villainisation of demeter will never cease to enrage me bc it wasn’t ENOUGH to just take a story of a girl being torn from her home from everyone who loved her and dragged away to be forced into marriage and twist and corrupt it until it was a romance story about female empowerment that wasn’t ENOUGH they HAD to take the original hero of the story the mother who went to every length to find her daughter again to bring her home and demonise her character until she was this horrific overbearing unloving mother. overprotective controlling without love. they turn the story of her grief at her YOUNG daughter being torn from her without her knowledge into the story of a misunderstood bad boy and a horrible cruel mother who won’t give him a chance and i really find it sickening. it’s ironic, that the ever misogynist age of hellenistic greece, has a better grasp of how disgusting and horrifying this situation was that a modern, self proclaimed ‘feminist’ era.

[alicentsaegon]

The Marriage of Aegon III and Jaehaera Targaryen.

They are so Henry VII Elizabeth of York coded

[m3tth4ws]

[herssian]

silent skies

[drearyrie]

RA MIRAN’S ACTING 😭‼️‼️‼️ WHAT THE HELLLLLLLL

Jeongnyeon: The Star is Born E11

[hannahvardit]

The exact moment that Plas and Woozy meet.

Context really doesn't change much here. You'd think it would. But it really doesn't.

[franticfloralfrenfern]

More ddvau by @kitsuneisi and @xmaruu11 because the guys have taken over my brain

[talesfromthecrypts]

Rebecca De Mornay in Mother's Day (2010)

[howtodrawyourdragon]

Thinking about how Calder went to extreme lengths to transform himself into a dragon (made armor based on it, tattood his literal entire body, kidnapped people just to have Hiccup and Toothless be his missing fire and wings) while Hiccup is seen as Other throughout the franchise without even trying.

[nibeul]

2.7k word braided essay on sight in interview with the vampire + glasses + mothers 👍🏽

[feralhoekage]

I shouldn't have to say this, but If I see MAGA in your bio, you're blocked.

If I see Pro Trump anywhere on your blog, you're blocked.

If I see project 2025 anywhere, you're blocked.

If I see "Your body, my choice" you're blocked.

Do not like, reblog, comment, follow ANYTHING of mine. I will block you.

You do not get to vote to have me become property again, and enjoy my body. You can fuck yourself bloody with a log splitter 👍🏼🙏🏼

[bharv]

The Morrigan line about Flemeth did not make me mad in the slightest and is probably the most consistent growth arc across the whole franchise :)

[stormsandskies]

idk if i’m ever going to get over the fact that Maddie never got a chance to really grieve Daniel.

Like he died and her parents grabbed all their stuff and moved away, to a new town where Daniel didn’t exist and then they checked out. They disappeared into their grief leaving a young (i think 9-10 year old) Maddie to raise her younger brother, to press bandages and kisses to skinned knees, to hug and hold after a scary dream, to teach to ride a bike.

Maddie was too busy raising her brother for her parents she never got a chance to grieve properly, her grief buried just below the surface, and Buck knew she was sad, but not why. Then she married Doug, and she still didn’t get to grieve. She was too busy walking on eggshells and worrying for her baby brother who was wandering the world aimlessly.

Then she ran, and she still didn’t get to grieve the pain from Daniel being shoved down low so she could get through. I don’t think Maddie truly grieved Daniel until after she told Buck, I think that grief was just sat in the bottom off her heart locked away fighting to come out, but Maddie was too busy trying to stay afloat to release it.