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letting go •

[diptych]

‘to let go’

I’ve had the Letting Go photo stuck for a while. I didn’t do it in its due time and every time I looked at the document we all have with the photos we published, I’d see that hole in my column. This week, when I started to conceptualize the photo for Free, I started toying with the idea of pulling one shot into the next — and that’s how these two came to be. One for letting go, one for setting free. Both a study on guilt, on what brings us to our knees, on what makes our backs ache and our loads unbearable — and on the freedom we achieve when we learn how to integrate that guilt and to make ourselves better with it.

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Week 12 - Recreate a Painting

Recreation of Getting Out of Bed by Berthe Morisot.

1885-86. Impressionism. Oil on canvas.

My oh my, it's Monday and I'm posting what I should have posted yesterday. I guess i needed that extra day and the three hours crying session over deciding what paint i would eventually recreate.

Painting is something very close to me, a passion of sorts, from painting myself to some sort of adoration for the masters of painting i have learn about through the years when studying - and loving - History of Art. Both paintings and painters are something that I can fangirl about like crazy, so when this week's theme popped up i went on a frenzy because picking up just one work from one master painter was, in my own view, an impossible task.

I put Caravaggio aside, as much as i love him i tend to dwell in the safety i feel working around him, his amazing use of light and darkness and his moody tones. Then i knew i couldn't go with Artemesia Gentileschi either, after all she's pretty much the female equivalent of the first. Also, in my first years of college i worked a whole lot around John William Waterhouse, even doing a re-creation of the so famous Ophelia, so there i was with another out of my list.

That was when i came to realise two things. First i would turn into Impressionism, another one of my great loves, and secondly i wanted to portray and re-create a painting of a female artist, portraying a woman in the painting. That's when i remembered the lovely Berthe Morisot, those soft tones, the depiction of such natural, calm moments of her life and the life of other women.

Berthe was recognised, still in life, by her works, exhibiting them side by side with masters such as Manet, Cézanne, Degas, Monet and even Renoir. That is something, that as a woman myself, I aspire to, to be recognised during life, to have my work sided with those of other men and women and be an equal in what i do compared to all of them.

I could have gone in a million different direction with this theme, i could have done Renaissance, Baroque, Raphaelite, Surrealism, but in the end Impressionism won and i guess now that i look at this it feels as right as it could ever be. I am happy, truly happy with this one.

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Week 10

Sometimes it’s all it takes, letting go of things that weight us down, things that can’t happen.

A personal and intricate feeling that we return to in so many moments of our lives. As deep or as shallow as letting go of something might be, they are always necessary.

This week i ended up letting go of a bigger picture i had envisioned for this theme. Sometimes one has to do it, as hard as it may be.

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4/52

"Heart"

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Week 2-Bloom

Bloom was the theme of this second week. A theme that i could have explored with a more open mind but with the rush to travel today to a destination in the centre of Europe, i turned to the comfort and normality of bloom as something a flower does, as naturally as that.

To bloom, or to florish, is also the act of expanding, growing, opening for something new, not just what flowers do but also what people can do.

That is where this idea comes in, that life is made of expansion, of becoming more, of blooming as people, workers or unique beings. The different stages of life are a way of blooming, a fresh start on its own and I think this is both scary and beautiful.

This week's theme is wonderful, and I only wish I had given it some proper justice.

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Week 04 - Heart

This week was no hard when it comes to developing a concept. If anything I had an overflow of ideas, problem is that from the two i had narrowed down to, one was quite too literal, requiring a real hart - a pig's heart as it's the most similiar to the human one - and that was not something i could acquire with much ease. The second one, the one i ended up choosing, was one that comes from a Portuguese saying that goes like the following: "To have the heart to close to the mouth". It means that someone is very quick to speak up about what they think and feel, sometimes without thinking much about it or the consequence. Someone who has their heart too close to their mouth are usually very honest people, which can be a great characteristic if only you don't get hurt or hurt others in the process.

This week is all about that idea, the heart, the emotion, feeling too much, too fast, falling too deep or flying too high, all about the side of the heart that is less physical and more emotional, after all it seems that it's the heart that does it all.

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3/52

"Favorite place."

"C'est cela l'amour, tout donner, tout sacrifier sans espoir de retour." - Albert Camus

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Week 14

[LATE]

Falling is a learning process. You fall when you learn how to walk, when you learn how to run, when you learn how to ride a bike. Falling can have a million negative connotations but it falling through the rabbit's hole that lead Alice in Wonderland.

Falling can be physical, emotional, spiritual. Falling can mean pain, wounds, decay. It's also falling that will make us get up, rise again. Falling can be the start of something new, something wonderful, something that will pavement a new path, a greater path than that from where we previously fell down.

Falling can be like flying, those brief seconds of freedom, of unknown, of undeniable, breathtaking release.

Falling and rising. Rising and falling. It's a never ending circle that we all must take.

- We're six friends, photographers, creating an annual project through 52 weeks. If you want to join us in this adventure please use the hashtag #52sisterhoodproject and create a self-portrait around this week's theme. We can't wait to see everything!