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A free Spirit
Mirit Ben-Nun was born in Beer- Sheva in 1966. Over the years she has presented in solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Israel and around the world.
When she was six, her father was killed in a car accident, leaving behind his wife and two daughters, Mirit and Dana.
Ben-Nun had difficulty concentrating on studies, which caused behavioral problems, and at the age of fourteen she dropped out of the education system and went to work. The colors and writing tools gave her a quiet private space and her own way of surviving. Creativity eased her tumultuous soul.
Until her early 30’s she worked as a telemarketer and for the next fourteen years she doodled and doodled. While talking to customers she filled thousands of pages with lines and dots that resembled hundreds of compressed eggs and seeds which she threw away.
In a large portion of each page she would pick a random word and would write it down over and over while concentrating on her hand movements.
Even then she noticed the rising of her need and obsession as she practiced the endless doodling and writing.
Ben-Nun testifies that the lack of artistic training to paint "correctly" freed her from adhering to the rules of painting and allowed her freedom and spirit of rebellion.
In 1998, she received a bunch of canvases and acrylic paints as a gift from her sister.
She brought the acrylic into her world of lines and dots; she went back to painting women and masks that appeared in her childhood paintings and flooded them with lines and dots without separating body and background.
This is also the moment when Ben-Nun began to refer to herself as a painter.
and when art became the center of her life.
The intense colors in Ben-Nun's paintings sweep the viewer into a sensual experience. The viewer traces the surge of dots and lines formed in packed layers of paint. The movement leads to a kind of female-male hormonal dance within the human body and to a communion with an artistic experience of instinct, passion, conceiving and birth.
Contributing to this experience is the wealth of characteristics reminiscent of tribal art. Ben-Nun merges these with a humorous and kicking contemporary Western Pop art. In the language of unique art, Ben-Nun creates an unconventional conversation between past and present cultures.
It is evident that the paintings emerge from a regenerated need and desire, a force that erupts from her soul, a subconscious survival instinct to which she cannot or does not want to resist.
Ben-Nun places women at the center stage where they are her work focus. The paintings obsessively deal with the existential experience of being a woman in the world. A few of the women's paintings carry feminist slogans stressing the women's struggle in society, a critique for being held to perfection and being required to perform as a model of "beauty, purity and motherhood". Feminism pulsates in Ben-Nun's psyche, through her diverse female images and the play between beauty and unsightliness; Ben-Nun assimilates the consciousness of feminine possibility, of not being "perfect", of being powerful, influential, and outside social norms. This mandates a departure from acceptable limitations where Ben-Nun creates a new world of free spirit for women.
Mirit Ben-Nun is a mother of three and the grandmother of three grandchildren.
Mirela Tal
Halong Bay, Vietnam
We spend two weeks in Vietnam over Christmas. We did a day trip to Halong Bay. To learn more about our day and see more photos, check out my blog post One Day in Vietnam's Mysterious Appearing Halong Bay on my blog Batteredsuitcase.net
So in Melbourne there’s a 5 day Mattel sponsored event where you get to create your own Style doll. I was kind of skeptic since I thought it was only going to be the standard blonde/ambiguously brown and light skinned black doll options, but since it was $20 for a new outfit, doll and custom box i decided to give it a look.
When i turned up, I immediately wanted to leave due to the queue and the amount of loud noises, until I saw the doll options included the redhaired hispanic doll and Asian cat dress doll which I have a feeling won’t be in Australia.
So I waited in line for an hour and 15 minutes, but it was so worth it being able to choose the doll and outfit pieces i wanted. It was a pretty huge kid friendly set up where you could sit down and colour in free books, you could get a fashion makeover by a stylist and a photo area. I didn’t photograph those areas cuz there was tons of kids and I felt awkward enough already lol.
Anyways, the process for ordering your doll was simple enough. You were given a simple and bright form and you just circled what you liked. The staff were super nice and i was able to get spare copies of the form to show to you guys.
created for: DUC challenge 887
Original photo by: Mark Rutley
texture by JoesSistah...
picture by: Leonardo da Vinci
After an IT support session for someone in Leicester's West End, I walked back to the bus station along the canal. There's some classy graffiti along here that I've not noticed before.
Created with ChatGPT
Here we have the final part of the tale of that fateful year. Lestat would leave Kat with Armand in Paris and sail to New Orleans and meet Louis and all that would follow.
So what is the tale behind the most secretive Vampiress of the Chronicles?
Katarina Verde of the Talamasca coming soon. ;)
Prompt -
Ultra-photorealistic IMAX fantasy photograph, full-colour 9:16 composition, Paris 1791 at night. Rain-slick cobblestone boulevard glowing with golden lantern reflections, horse-drawn carriages, aristocrats moving through drifting fog, grand Parisian architecture illuminated beneath a dramatic full moon. In the foreground, two immortal vampires walk together through the heart of the city as if they own the night. FV1: tall aristocratic vampire lord with pale porcelain skin, long flowing golden-blond curls, sharp noble facial structure, cold intelligent gaze, black velvet coat richly embroidered with gold filigree, ivory ruffled cravat, high leather boots, flowing cape trailing behind. K1: glamorous vampire queen with shoulder-length honey-blonde curls, large vivid blue eyes, full lips with deep purple lipstick, soft rounded facial structure, elegant crimson-and-black gothic gown adorned with black lace, gemstones, intricate beadwork, ornate choker and refined Victorian detailing. Both figures perfectly integrated into the environment with matching lighting, shadows, reflections, atmospheric interaction, perspective, and focus. Warm lantern light contrasts with cool moonlight, cinematic volumetric fog, realistic wet-street reflections, photorealistic skin textures, ultra-detailed fabrics, historical Paris atmosphere, dark romantic vampire aesthetic, dramatic cloud formations, immersive depth, Netflix-quality production design, Unreal Engine 5.5 realism, masterpiece photography, no text, no logos, no watermark, no illustration, no CGI appearance, authentic photographic realism.
Pic and prompt by Adrian
A pair taking portraits of themselves sitting on a canopy of the Fernsehturm, the landmark tower at the Alexanderplatz.
Aspire to be a light.
To desire everlasting creativity.
Be the student to every little thing around you.
For the inability to accomplish something, ultimately leads you to better understanding.
I’ve been gifted with life, love and the will to create. This year, although with strife, has taught me acceptance. That the world around us is one automated and interconnected life force.
One to be explored.
I’m honored by the presence of very special people in my life who’ve given me hope and the will to continue living.
Thank you for making an impact in my life.
Continue to be curious, not judgmental.
New custom rims have been received by @systemofabrick for my Audi avant! Textured hair is in real wheel. That was being replicated, Andreas is really good at replicating rims! #Audi #AudiAvantRS6 #Technic #ScaleModel #MOC #HDR #LegoPhoto #InstaCool #Influencer #Create #Motivate
Shot with Canon EOS 40D + Canon 18-55mm
I shot this in the same art gallery as this one.
This artist looked a bit curious after I shot this and somehow didnt want to go on with creating his art as long as I stood there with my camera. Fortunately I already had my shot =)
As you may have heard, tomorrow will be a pretty interesting day in berlin. Its the annual "Labor day" which is traditionally celebrated with a big public party and riots afterwards.
Right wing extremists fight against left wing extremists fight against police.
I am not totally sure yet whether I really want to go shooting there but I think I will.
I hope for good shots. And for not being arrested or hit by something. Fingers crossed!
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Created for Angie's Animal Antics Challenge No 17 Feline
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created for: Digitalmania group
After : Florian Nicolle
poem by: Thomas Stearns Eliot
cat by: FOTOLIA
texture by:SkeletalMess