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“Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!”
—Chinonye J. Chidolue
This was my response to "Draw You at this Precise Moment in Time." I love that my friend, Cecilia, posed this challenge to me. I've been hoping to have another collaborative/co-creative and therapeutic art journey for awhile. I also love how this came out, as I started with the idea of nebulae. There's nothing better than following my flow and letting my heart lead.
Alternate title: Because of You and For You
So I haven't really had time to work on any new self portraits up until now. This morning I had some free time and decided to take some before getting ready for the day. This is one of them, I'm pretty pleased with how they came out.
Besides that point, I've been having a pretty rough time the past few weeks and have been feeling low. The past couple of days have been much nicer and after seeing how some of these came out, I am feeling much better about myself.
Love [ME] tender
This series of intimate self-portraits has been a long time coming... it was my sister who was the "pretty one"... the "thin one"... the "smart one"... I grew up in her shadow... I was her little sister... never quite matching up to her, never able to be mom's "favorite"... These are painful thoughts, years of feeling self-loathing... today I took these photos of myself with love and forgiveness, and thoughts of "I am beautiful"... chubby, but beautiful...
My mother's heritage to me was her sense of herself as a "fat person"... not quite worthy of beauty and maybe this is why she admired and "loved" my sister more, for she was the "beautiful one".... Maybe I was too much a mirror to her.
Feeling deep pains as I write this... but today is the day I fight back and say to my mother "It's OK to be fat"... It's beautiful if you feel beautiful inside, if you are loved deeply by a wonderful man, and if you love yourself enough to forgive yourself for being "fat"....
I think these photos of myself are full of love and beauty... that's how I feel about [ME].... today....
love [me] tender, a film by mary bogdanhttp://www.lulu.tv/?p=7622
For Flickr Group Roulette and Self Love:
An image which shows you being a poser makes you want to have sex with yourself!
"Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know."
-Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
by Wendell Berry
love [me] tender, a film by mary bogdan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge6stQVsOOw
This series of intimate self-portraits has been a long time coming... it was my sister who was the "pretty one", the "thin one"... I grew up in her shadow... I was her little sister... never able to be mom's "favorite"... These are painful thoughts, years of feeling self-loathing... today I took these photos of myself with love & forgiveness, & thoughts of "I am beautiful"... chubby, but beautiful...
My heritage was my sense of myself as a "fat person"... not quite worthy of beauty & love. Feeling deep pains as I write this... but today is the day I fight back & say "It's OK to be fat"... It's beautiful if you feel beautiful inside, if you are loved deeply by a wonderful man & if you love yourself enough to forgive yourself for being "fat"...
I think these photos of myself are full of love & beauty... that's how I feel about [ME]... today.
SleepyOwl says: Oh, yes, the depth of the music layering really complements the depth of your personal revelatory journeying... You are so generous, Mary, to invite us to witness this transmutation of sorrow and painful memories. The video felt like an exorcism viewed through a kaleidoscope with its richness of shapes and colors, and at other moments there was the simple purity of free-fall flight -- into healing... I played the video a bunch of times -- first with the sound only, then with only the images, then integrated. Then on the fourth viewing I was struck with the message of the universality and the complexity and the power and the joy of human sensuality.
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Name: Thassiane Albuquerque
From: Recife, Pernambuco - Brasil
Horoscope: Aquarius
The goal isn't to stop drinking...the #Goal is to love yourself so much, that you don't need a drink. #Selflove t.co/G0cQVKca5M (via Twitter twitter.com/NewportOneHealt/status/765932458722361345)
Love [ME] Tender film festival screening June 7, 07 in Coimbra, Portugal
One of my short films Love [ME] Tender will be part of the Transnatura Videolab 07 exhibition. The screening will be taking place June 7 (see full list below). The event will run from May 18 to June 16, in the Botanical Garden (Coimbra). Sessions begin at 9.30pm.
love [me] tender, a film by mary bogdan
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Transnatura Videolab 2007, Image-Body, Botanical Garden Coimbra, Portugal, May18-June16, 07.
“IMAGE-BODY”
(Curated by Videolab) Organization: Paulo Amaral (Botanical Garden) and Videolab
Being one of the most interesting artistic themes of the last decades, the human body is basically for artists the same a piece of wood, stone or clay was to our ancestors. That is to say that art is turning it into an object susceptible of expressing symbols, meanings. In every day living we stumble in images of the body in the tv, cinema, marketing, and it is probable that this abundance reveals that we are all as a race interested in our bodies. Long centuries have passed since the imposition of the dualism matter spirit, body/soul. From Plato to Descartes, the image of the body as a dangerous machine full of adversities would come to be printed in the collective imaginary of the western man. The globalized societies of the 21st see the body as a tool that we will be able to use to wake in others their attention. In this sense, to talk about the body is to talk about the need of projecting an image – all the bodies wish to transmit an image that is unmistakable theirs’. From inn of all the males, body is now becoming not only what allows an individual to define his own identity but also the vehicle to achieve pleasure. Anyway, we should not forget that the human body has been used througtout the centuries as something similar to an artistic surface, or screen if you prefer, upon which humankind revealed its most deepest thoughts – something that we can still nowadays understand when we look at primitive tribes in Africa and Australia, and see the way in which they decorate their bodies with several degrees of significance. For them, the body is part of a wide ritual that connects them to god, to tradition, to the social community. Could it be that artists are trying to recapture that ritual importance of our material bodies? And should we say that they are leading the process of liberating human beings from the long traditional antagonism body/soul? An event dealing with the “ Image-body “ subjet would not be complete without the inclusion of a selection of works specifically dealing with videodance. Videodance can be understood as a dialogue between dance and video, giving birth to an artistic work where this two languages merge. It is clearly a form of artistic expression that exists in the video and for the video, setting itself up as the materialization of a thought that integrates in simultaneous the ideas of the choreographer and of the video producer. Thus being, videodance is a hybrid work, that does not allow the distinction between the video and the choreography.
O Transnatura Videolab 2007 prossegue a sua programação com 4 novas propostas para os próximos dias 6, 7, 8 e 9 de Junho.
As sessões terão lugar no Jardim Botânico da Universidade de Coimbra, pelas 21H30.
(6 de Junho) - "IMAGEM-PENSAMENTO"
"Zizek" de Astra Taylor – apresentação por Jacinto Godinho
(7 de Junho) - "IMAGEM CORPO" | "Corpo Transmutado"
(intro) "Loud A nd Clear" | DIETMAR KRUMREY (EUA)
"Ornamental" | ANNA CHIARETTA LAVATELLI (EUA)
"Words as Adornments" | NATHANIEL WOJTALIK (EUA)
"Love [Me] Tender" | MARY BOGDAN (Canadá)
"Kip Masker" | MARIA PETSCHNIG (Áustria)
"Entitled As" | ARZU OZKAL TELHAN (TURQUIA)
"Mother's Milk" | AMELIA WINGER-BEARSKIN (EUA)
"Packaged Goods" | LEAH MEYERHOFF (EUA)
"Gender Bender Hallo" | ALISON WILLIAMS (África do Sul)
"Nothingness" | ARZU OZKAL TELHAN (Turquia)
(8 de Junho) - "IMAGEM-PENSAMENTO"
"La Société du spectacle" de Guy Debord – apresentação por José Pinto
(9 de Junho) "IMAGEM-PENSAMENTO"
"Deleuze – C(h)i pensa il cinema?" Curso em Vincennes – apresentação por José Gil
Para consultar programação completa aceder a:
Próximas sessões:
(15 de Junho) "Foucault par lui-même" de Philippe Calderon e François Ewald – apresentação por Fernando Cascais
(16 de Junho) "Cremaster 3" de Matthew Barney – apresentação por José A. Bragança de Miranda
buy one of my prints from the Love [ME] Tender series
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Their quick feet pattered on the grass
As light as dewdrops fall
I saw their shadows on the glass
And heard their voices call.
But when I went out hurrying
To join them, they were gone
I only found a little ring
Of footprints on the lawn.
-Thomas Kennedy
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost
love [me] tender, a film by mary bogdan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge6stQVsOOw
This series of intimate self-portraits has been a long time coming... it was my sister who was the "pretty one", the "thin one"... I grew up in her shadow... I was her little sister... never able to be mom's "favorite"... These are painful thoughts, years of feeling self-loathing... today I took these photos of myself with love & forgiveness, & thoughts of "I am beautiful"... chubby, but beautiful...
My heritage was my sense of myself as a "fat person"... not quite worthy of beauty & love. Feeling deep pains as I write this... but today is the day I fight back & say "It's OK to be fat"... It's beautiful if you feel beautiful inside, if you are loved deeply by a wonderful man & if you love yourself enough to forgive yourself for being "fat"...
I think these photos of myself are full of love & beauty... that's how I feel about [ME]... today.
SleepyOwl says: Oh, yes, the depth of the music layering really complements the depth of your personal revelatory journeying... You are so generous, Mary, to invite us to witness this transmutation of sorrow and painful memories. The video felt like an exorcism viewed through a kaleidoscope with its richness of shapes and colors, and at other moments there was the simple purity of free-fall flight -- into healing... I played the video a bunch of times -- first with the sound only, then with only the images, then integrated. Then on the fourth viewing I was struck with the message of the universality and the complexity and the power and the joy of human sensuality.