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A mother feeding her Child in Shanghai, China.
The one-child policy (simplified Chinese: 计划生育政策; pinyin: jìhuà shēngyù zhèngcè; literally "policy of birth planning") is the population control policy of the People's Republic of China. The Chinese government refers to it under the official translation of family planning policy. It officially restricts the number of children married urban couples can have to one, although it allows exemptions for several cases, including rural couples, ethnic minorities, and parents without any siblings themselves.
A spokesperson of the Committee on the One-Child Policy has said that approximately 35.9% of China's population is currently subject to the one-child restriction. The policy does not apply to the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao.
"Look at the camera."
Ramin would sometimes think about his mother, even years after the end of the war.
Looking out of the window where Cheryl and her mother Alessa would sit in the garden, watching them while every touch, every word they exchanged was a proof of their deep love for each other, brought up often unpleasant memories.
He wasn't envious, he was happy now and what had happened in the past belonged there, but still once in a while he remembered her.
Her cold eyes, the hands that lacked affection, seldom smiling.
Sometimes she would pick him up, telling him how he was her perfect little boy, but it never felt right to him.
It was always about perfection and he had tried his best to make her happy, especially after the death of his father.
It took years for him to accept that he couldn't have done anything to avert the inevitable.
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Finally I'm allowed to upload this picture :)
It was part of the "Soom around the World" project, for Flickr I decided to upload the picture without the text though.
It's the first time I actually took a picture of Arcadia interacting with one of her children.
Ramin and his mother have a difficult relationship, different than the one his sister shares with their mother.
While Hermia always tried to be like her mother, never questioning her and her believes, Ramin was most of the time afraid of her.
He tried very hard to make her happy but he never realized that it wasn't him who was "wrong".
He doesn't hate her, and later in his life he understands that his mother was just a product of all the social pressure she had to endure since she was a child herself, but he still wishes that things would have been different.
The mentioned thing at the end is actually a hint towards what Arcadia does when the war ends: she kills herself and her daughter, unwilling to accept the future.
I actually worked a lot at Arcadia's character in the last weeks,
She's still a perfectionist and rarely shows affection and any emotion towards most of the people around her, but I made her less "she's evil" and more "she's human".
Just like Hermia for example she was raised with one goal, namely that one day she would be married to a wealthy man, get a few kids and that none of this would be hers to decide.
She got a bit cynical about all this and, with tightly pressed lips, accepted her fate most of the time.
Before she was just a cruel bitch who's only in for the money, the good name and everything she did was basically "well, she does it because she's horrible".
I also changed her thoughts about her husband and thus also the way she and Roman interact (her dead husband is Roman's brother and thus he's her brother-in-law), while most of the time I imagined them hating each other like woah I now think they can, mostly, accept each other and their fucked up situation.
After all Roman has to take care of the kids now after his brother died.
More about that as soon as I get Roman's new shell (please ship alreadyyyy ;A;)
Title is by the way an on-going joke between me and my friends.
Before she got a name I always just called her "DIe Mutter" (the mother), which ended with us going all Rammstein-Voice "Mutterrr" whenever we would talk about her :'D
Ara
Arcadia Mellenkamp - SOOM SO Beryl
Ramin Mellenkamp - SOOM MD Afi
Bertl Mütter, Gerhard Laber & Tobias Vedovelli Trio - 27.01.2023 - Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg
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Besetzung:
Bertl Mütter: trombone
Gerhard Laber: drums, percussion
Tobias Vedovelli: double bass
Ein junger Basstölpel wird gefüttert. Traurig: Im Nest sind wie bei fast allen anderen auch sehr viele Plastikschnüre und Stücke von Fischernetzen eingebaut. An diesen hängen sich jedes Jahr unfreiwillig viele Vögel zu Tode.
"Nah, im Aortenbogen,
im Hellblut:
das Hellwort.
Mutter Rahel weint nicht mehr.
Rübergetragen
alles Geweinte.
Still, in den Kranzarterien,
unumschnürt:
Ziw, jenes Licht."
~ Paul Celan
an attempt to translate:
"close, in the aorta's arch,
in the lightblood:
the lightword.
mother rahel weeps no more.
carried across
is all that has been cried.
quiet, in the corona arteries,
untwined:
ziv, that light."